"I brought the Beetle to life with a roar. Well. Not really a roar. A Volkswagen Bug doesn't roar. But it sort of growled..."

-- Jim Butcher

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“Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.”

Source : Nicolas Malebranche (2014). “Dialogues on Metaphysics”, p.200, Routledge
“There is a nonsense about intelligent women not being beautiful.”
“If animals had a Pope," Major Thompson said to me, "their Vatican would be in London. And if by some dire submarine cataclysm that noble vessel, Great Britain, were to be shipwrecked and start to founder, believe me, there would surely be somebody in Westminster to cry from the top of the Tower: "Dogs first!”
“It is better that great peoples should seek out glory, or even vanity, in their deeds, than that they should remain indifferent . For even if they are not incited to act upon virtuous principles, at least there is the saving grace that they will do things they might not have done had not vanity prompted their actions.”
“The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.”
“...if I see but one smile on your lips when we meet, occasioned by this or any other exertion of mine, I shall need no other happiness.”
“I think I do become someone else. In real life, Iâ€™m very shy, but people think Iâ€™m this angry, sexy kind of... god knows what they think! And there I am in front of them, nervous and blushing and stuttering and whatnot. So Iâ€™m definitely not the person you see in pictures. I mean, in pictures, you look like something youâ€™re not.”

Source : Interview with Marc Jacobs, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2010.
“The news today that Bush has vowed to veto any legislation that reviews the security implications of the Dubai Port World's potential management of our ports is ludicrous and the entire Democratic Party is calling him to task for it.”

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