“This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.”
John D. Carmack (1970) American computer programmer, engineer, and businessman
On spending $2 million on building rockets, Quoted in "Carmack's Jet Vanes" http://groups.google.com/group/sci.space.policy/msg/04e3682944fbcc74?hl=en (2004-05-13)
“Nor do I know what is become
Of him, more than the Pope of Rome.”
Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist
Canto III, line 263
Source: Hudibras, Part I (1663–1664)
“It's the tragedy of loving, you can't love anything more than something you miss.”
Jonathan Safran Foer book Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Variant: It’s the tragedy of loving, you can’t love anything more than something you miss.
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2005), p. 208
Steven Pressfield (1943) United States Marine
Source: The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander the Great
“We read frequently if unknowingly, in quest of a mind more original than our own.”
Harold Bloom (1930–2019) American literary critic and scholar
“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”
Elisabeth Elliot book Passion and Purity
Source: Passion and Purity
“If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.”
Confucius (-551–-479 BC) Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher
“I love you, Julian Blackthorn. I love you more than starlight.”
Cassandra Clare book Lady Midnight
Source: Lady Midnight
“There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.”
M. Scott Peck (1936–2005) American psychiatrist
“People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point.”
George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian
Books, When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops? (2004)
Source: When Will Jesus Bring The Pork Chops?
“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”
Nicholas Sparks (1965) American writer and novelist
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer
1910s
Source: A Little Book in C Major (1916)
“Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“Everybody has problems. Some people just hide their crap better than others.”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
