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“The pope being informed of the great increase of Protestantism, in the year 1542 sent inquisitors to Venice to make an inquiry into the matter, and apprehend such as they might deem obnoxious persons.”
Source : John Foxe, William Byron Forbush (2004). “Foxe's Book of Martyrs”, p.128, Hendrickson Publishers
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“The dog becomes the repository of those model human properties that we have cynically ceased to find among humans. Where today can we find the full panoply of William Bennett's Book of Virtues-from Courage and Responsibility to Loyalty and Family Values-but in Lassie and Beethoven and Millie and Checkers and Spot?”
Source : Marjorie Garber (1997). “DOG LOVE”, Touchstone
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“You must be prepared to work always without applause.”
Source : Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.1053, Simon and Schuster
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“I'm not inspired by space in that kind of futuristic sense, but I've never liked retro. Of course, we always get references from the past, but that doesn't mean that the clothes have to look like the past. We need to look forward, which is why I'm fascinated by new materials, technologies, techniques, and unusual ways to use colors or textures.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“The pastoral labours of the archbishop of Constantinople provoked and gradually united against him two sorts of enemies; the aspiring clergy, who envied his success, and the obstinate sinners, who were offended by his reproofs. When Chrysostom thundered from the pulpit of St. Sophia against the degeneracy of the Christians, his shafts were spent among the crowd, without wounding or even marking the character of any individual.”
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“It's impossible to escape from religion anywhere you are in the States.”
Source : "Evangelicals". Interview with Stuart Berman, pitchfork.com. August 28, 2006. 
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“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.”
Source : "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.
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“Men choose Hamlet because every man sees himself as a disinherited monarch. Women choose Alice [in Wonderland] because every woman sees herself as the only reasonable creature among crazy people who think they are disinherited monarchs.”
