"Don't move," said Sprockett."Mimes don't generally attack unless they are threatened."

-- Jasper Fforde

#Moving Quotes #Said Quotes #Mime Quotes

“The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.”
“If you disagree with me, fine! Because that's the great thing about America, we can disagree!”
“In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off.”
“Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.”
“The Celtic fans are very special and the club and players can be very proud of them. They are the best I have ever heard.”
“What it is is that there's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it, and better than that ... there is this beauty in dropping it into a community of your own making, and seeing it dispersed, and seeing younger, more talented, just different talent, take it to levels you can never imagine, because that lives on.”
“The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.”
“I grew up in this era where your parents' friends were all called aunt and uncle. And then I had an aunt and an aunt. We saw them on holidays and other times. We never talked about it, but I just understood that they were a couple.”

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