
“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)
Source: Clockwork Angel
“Something that bad, it makes the headlines. They were idiots to bet against physics.”
Source: On the Steel Breeze (2013), Chapter (p. 149)
"Jolie shocked by Madonna attacks" Reuters report, via CNN.com (8 January 2007) http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/01/08/jolie.madonna.reut/index.html
Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard
Song lyrics, Paul Simon (1972)
"A View from the Patriotic Left" http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=F01E41CB-A584-4597-B9BE-86BBD9B3F7A1, Boston Globe (2002-09-09)]: On the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
2000s, 2002
“One idiot is one idiot. Two idiots are two idiots. Ten thousand idiots are a political party.”
Was written in a slightly different way by Leo Longanesi in Italian, above form has been attributed to Kafka without evidence.
Misattributed
Source: One Idiot Is One Idiot. Two Idiots Are Two Idiots. Ten Thousand Idiots Are a Political Party, Quote Investigator, 2021-10-08 https://quoteinvestigator.com/2021/10/08/idiots/,
"No Religion is an Island", p. 264
Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays (1997)
“The laws of the realm do admit nothing against the law of God.”
Colt v. Glover (1614), Lord Hobart's Rep. 149.
Said during his exile in Peking, as quoted by Oriana Fallaci (June 1973), Intervista con la Storia (sixth edition, 2011). page 113.
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