"Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishnessâ€”there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence."

-- Orson Scott Card

#Lying Quotes #Stupid Quotes #Fire Quotes

“I felt really bad for someone who is swimming in so much hate. I just thought, that's someone who's in a really bad spot, and I am in such a happy spot. I laugh my head off every day with my husband and my kids who are mooning me and singing me songs.”

Source : "Melissa McCarthy Goes Over the Top" by Dave Itzkoff, www.nytimes.com. June 13, 2013.
“A cultivated reader of history is domesticated in all families; he dines with Pericles, and sups with Titian.”

Source : Robert Aris Willmott (1907). “Pleasures of Literature”
“Blue color is everlastingly appointed by the deity to be a source of delight.”
“Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.”

Source : Manny Farber (2016). “Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America”, p.544, Library of America
“People are intimately bound up with the diversity of life on Earth.”
“I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.”
“Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is the straight-up peak of hip-hop. Straight-up one of the most powerful records ever made, period, in music.”
“I believed then, and continue to believe now, that the benefits to our security and freedom of widely available cryptography far, far outweigh the inevitable damage that comes from its use by criminals and terrorists. I believed, and continue to believe, that the arguments against widely available cryptography, while certainly advanced by people of good will, did not hold up against the cold light of reason and were inconsistent with the most basic American values.”

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