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“There are no habits of man more alien to the doctrine of the Communist than those of the collector”
Source : Augustine Birrell (1922). “The collected essays & addresses of the Rt. Hon. Augustine Birrell, 1880-1920 ...”
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“You have to listen to your own voice. Not your heart, not your instincts, not any of that self-permissive psycho-babble stuff. No, none of that. If it was just about instincts and bright ideas it wouldn't need to be a voice. It's about words. You hear them, read them, then you write. But mostly read. Read the bloody poems.”
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“I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.”
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“The praise of a civilized world is justly due to Christianity;—war, by the influence of the humane principles of that religion, has been stripped of half its horrors. The French renounce Christianity, and they relapse into barbarism;—war resumes the same hideous and savage form which it wore in the ages of Gothic and Roman violence.”
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“Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.”
Source : Oliver Wendell Holmes (2007). “Autocrat Of The Breakfast Table”, p.114, Reprint Services Corporation
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“Anger must be the energy that has not yet found its fight channel.”
Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.76, Knopf
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“I think it's really cool that videogames are getting more and more sophisticated and believable, and that people who worked on movies are being asked to art direct and design video games and characters, so they look better and better. When I see Jurassic Park on the screen, I predicted that games would be able to create a virtual experience that was just as real as the movies - we're not quite there yet, but it's getting better all the time.”
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“There's not many things less important than the score at halftime.”
