"Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts."

-- Jeffrey Robinson

#Dog Quotes #Lamps Quotes #Critics Quotes

“Crazy people don't sit around wondering if they're nuts.”
“Despite my mum being from a small village in the middle of a forest, I'm not a country person. I don't like my bacon sandwich to be curiously snuffling at my fingers. But sometimes being police means holding your breath and fondling a pig.”
“The experiments I am about to relate ... may be repeated with great ease, whenever the sun shines, and without any other apparatus than is at hand to every one.”

Source : Thomas Young, John Leitch (1855). “Miscellaneous Works of the Late Thomas Young, M.D., F.R.S., &c: And One of the Eight Foreign Associates of the National Institute of France. Vols. I. & II., Including His Scientific Memoirs, &c”, p.181
“It is easy for me to imagine that the next great division of the world will be between people who wish to live as creatures and people who wish to live as machines.”
“Government-to-government foreign aid promotes statism, centralized planning, socialism, dependence, pauperization, inefficiency, and waste. It prolongs the poverty it is designed to cure. Voluntary private investment in private enterprise, on the other hand, promotes capitalism, production, independence, and self-reliance.”
“Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.”
“Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once.”
“I don't like the pitch count! How are you gonna develop your arm? If you're a track man you say, "Hey, you can't run too much." Or if you're a boxer you say, "Hey, you can only box three rounds." It's not right!”

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