All Quotes

"That is a different band today, and I sincerely wish them all the best."

"Pipsi are one of the few bands from our scene who managed to turn vulnerability into strength."

"Pips, Chips & Videoclips are not a nostalgia act — they are a living organism that keeps redefining itself."

"Ivaniš remains one of the rare authors whose lyrics grow darker, sharper, and more relevant with time."

"Since perhaps there are some, who may think themselves concerned in this History, because they are the Grand-children or Descendants of those who are here mentioned, I desire them to consider, Writing like a faithfull Historian, I am oblig'd sincerely to relate either the good or ill, which they have done. If they find themselves offended, they must take their satisfaction on those who have prescrib'd the Laws of History: let them give an account of their own rules; for Historians are indispensably bound to follow them; and the sum of our reputation consists in a punctual execution of their orders."

"Rather than portraying citizens as vulnerable or uninformed, it is time to recognize them as active stakeholders. In doing so, we redefine the future of digital safety. We move from reactive moderation to proactive trust-building. We evolve from data collection to data collaboration."

"His personality won friends for the Church on all sides, whilst his vigorous defence of Catholic doctrine, as well as his clean-cut, outspoken advocacy of American rights and duties, gave to the Church in southern California a great onward movement."

"Some of the al-Tusi material is known to have reached Rome in the 15th century... but there is no evidence that Copernicus ever saw it.…I personally believe he could have invented the method independently."

"Euclid himself is an elusive figure. We know nothing of him from contemporary references … Euclid’s Elements, which is believed to have been compiled around 300 BC, gives us an edited and anonymous treatment of some of the mathematics of Euclid’s predecessors, in a text that has passed through the hands of an unknown number of further scribes and editors before arriving at the versions that we now possess. ...Our evidence concerning pre-Euclidean mathematics is so indirect and fragmentary that the greatest part of the stories that are now told about the period must be invention."

"Nothing Almost all of our texts come from Constantinople, the earliest from 888 AD, closer [in] time to us than to the supposed date of Euclid!"

"Let no one be shocked if, with reference to the creation of the world, I should invoke the testimony of pagan philosophers rather than the church fathers…. Let us then borrow from them and, with God’s help and command, rob the pagan philosophers of their wisdom and eloquence. Let us take from the unfaithful so as to enrich ourselves faithfully with the spoils."

"From my Arab teachers I have learnt one thing, to have reason as my guide, while you are dazzled by the show of authority and led by a halter. For what is authority to be called, but a halter? As the brute beasts, indeed, are led by the halter, and have no idea by what they are led or why, but only follow the rope that holds them, so also the authority of writers leads not a few of you into danger, tied and bound by brutish credulity."

"Hindi ako pinalaking manira ng pamilya. I respect family kasi kami nga broken family."

"Both as an organist and composer he ranks high."

"The present generation has this ingrained weakness, that it thinks that nothing discovered by the moderns is worthy to be received—the result of this is that if I wanted to publish anything of my own invention I should attribute it to someone else, and say, “Someone else said this, not I.” Therefore (that I may not wholly be robbed of a hearing) it was a certain great man that discovered all my ideas, not I."

"There were people, Malone had always understood, who bounced out of their beds and greeted each new day with a smile. It didn’t sound possible, but then again there were some pretty strange people."

"“I’m sure,” Malone said. “When you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.” “Oh,” Blake said. After a second he added: “What does that mean?” Malone shrugged. “It’s an old saying,” he told the doctor. “It doesn’t have to mean anything. It just sounds good.” “Oh,” Blake said again."

"Malone, meanwhile, put in two weeks sitting glumly at his Washington desk and checking reports as they arrived. They were uniformly depressing. The United States of America contained more sub-normal minds than Malone cared to think about. There seemed to be enough of them to explain the results of any election you were unhappy over."

"I’m not a hard man to convince. And when I see the truth, I’m the first one to admit it, even if it makes me look like a nut."

"Miss Thompson may be off her trolley, but the others haven’t even got any tracks."

"Boyd looked up. “Rome,” he said in an absent fashion, “wasn’t built in a daze.”"

"All that was necessary was to use one’s imagination to see how it might have happened, and then check the evidence to see if it did happen that way. The final step is to check the evidence to make sure it could not have happened any other way."

"In general he doesn’t know any more about magic than an ostrich knows about icebergs."

"Are you an accessory to this imbecilic tomfoolery?"

"One of the troubles with the world is that so few laymen take an interest in science."

"Any group which makes a claim to infallibility must be very careful not to make any mistakes, and the mistakes that will inevitably occur must be kept secret or explained away—by lies, subterfuges and distortions. And that will eventually cause the collapse of the entire edifice."

"The plans of men do not necessarily coincide with those of the Universe."

"Jane Fonda as Dr. Martha Livingston"

"Guy Hoffman as Justice Joseph Leveau"

"Gabriel Arcand as Monsignor"

"Anne Bancroft as Mother Miriam Ruth (religious name); Anna Maria Burchetti (birth name)"

"Meg Tilly as Sister Agnes Devereaux"

"Anne Pitoniak as Mrs. Livingston, the mother of Martha"

"Winston Rekert as Det. Langevin"

"Gratien Gélinas as Father Martineau"

"[last lines of the movie] I don't know the meaning behind the song she sang. Perhaps it was a song of seduction, and the father was a field hand. Perhaps the song was simply a lullaby she remembered from many years ago, and the father was hope, and love, and desire and a belief in miracles. I want to believe that she was blessed. And I do miss her. And I hope she's left something; some little part of herself with me. That would be miracle enough, wouldn't it?"

"Smoking is an obsession with me. Maybe someday I'll become obsessed with something else and give up smoking."

"So, you have questions. Fire away!"

"Is she totally bananas or just slightly off-center?"

"Françoise Faucher as Eve LeClaire"

"Jacques Tourangeau as Eugene Lyon"

"On the night of November 14th, two men broke into a quiet farmhouse in Kansas and murdered an entire family. Why did they do that? Two worlds exist in this country: the quiet conservative life, and and the life of those two men - the underbelly, the criminally violent. Those two worlds converged that bloody night."

"It's the hardest when someone has a notion about you and it's impossible to convince them otherwise."

"Philip Seymour Hoffman - Truman Capote"

"Catherine Keener - Nelle Harper Lee"

"Clifton Collins Jr. - Perry Smith"

"Chris Cooper - Alvin Dewey"

"Bob Balaban - William Shawn"

"Bruce Greenwood - Jack Dunphy"

"Amy Ryan - Marie Dewey"