"John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties."

-- Frank Mankiewicz

#Humorous Quotes #Party Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“If any remedy is tested under controlled scientific conditions and proved to be effective, it will cease to be alternative and will simply become medicine. So-called alternative medicine either hasn't been tested or it has failed its tests.”
“My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because islands are small self-contained worlds that can help us understand larger ones.”
“Don't wait until you retire to go fishing. Don't even wait until your annual vacation. Go at every opportunity. Things that appear more urgent at the moment may, in the long run, turn out to be far less so.”
“A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home,”

Source : Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation
“[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we fly with.”
“Average is the enemy of excellence, and average commitment will prevent you from enduring to the end.”
“I know that the history of man is not his technical triumphs, his kills, his victories. It is a composite, a mosaic of a trillion pieces, the account of each man's accommodation with his conscience. This is the true history of the race.”
“I grew up rock climbing.”

Source : "Comic-Con 2011: Exclusive Interview: Jason Momoa Talks CONAN THE BARBARIAN, GAME OF THRONES, BULLET TO THE HEAD, and More". Interview with Bill Graham, collider.com. July 23, 2011.

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