“I don't speak Latin. It's a dead language. It killed the Romans, and now it's killing us.”
Kent Hovind (1953) American young Earth creationist
Dr. Kent Hovind - Newly Discovered Dinosaur Species Proof of Evolution? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4VH68W5nKs, Youtube (October 14 2015)
“Cannon his name,
Cannon his voice, he came.”
George Meredith (1828–1909) British novelist and poet of the Victorian era
Napoléon, I (1898).
“What we don't know as a nation and as a citizen can kill us.”
Fred W. Friendly (1915–1998) President of CBS News
Open Mind Interview https://www.archive.org/details/openmind_ep498?start=467
PZ Myers (1957) American scientist and associate professor of biology
Context: We're confronted all the time with evolving viruses and bacteria. The Red Queen really rules the biological world, and we have to keep running just to keep up pace with the changing microorganisms. Yet policymakers and the public deny vaccination, and evolution itself, and question the value of biomedical research. Maybe they don't believe in evolution, but the microorganisms trying to kill us are taking full advantage of it.
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print?id=2083509&type=story
On boxing
“Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.”
Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) British actor, director and producer
On filming Shakespeare, before he did it, as quoted in Olivier (2005) by Terry Coleman
“Guns don't kill people – Americans kill people.”
Michael Moore (1954) American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal activist
Michael Moore on The Ed Show, MSNBC, March 22, 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JVORszwdNA <br class="br">2012
