"There is one curious fact noticeable in regard to this thing called "luck," which is, that while it is made responsible for any turn of affairs that we feel to be discreditable to us, it rarely has credit for an opposite state of things; but, like most other faithful allies in victory, comes poorly off."

-- William Matthews

#Opposites Quotes #Faithful Quotes #Luck Quotes

“Telephone and telegraph were better means of communication than the holy man's telepathy”

Source : Eric J. Hobsbawm (1994). “Age of extremes: the short twentieth century, 1914-1991”
“It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.”
“Language must resound with all the harmonies of music. The writer must always, at all times, find the tremulous word which captures the thing and is able to draw a sob from my soul by its very rightness.”
“Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup.”
“Why should an atheist pay more taxes so that a church which he despises should pay no taxes? That's a fair question. How can the apologists for the church exemption answer it?”
“That's my real message: I work very hard. We're an honest presentation, we try to give people entertainment and information at the same time, and it's working. I don't see any need for big drastic changes in our presentation.”
“The pressure for conformity is enormous. I have experienced it in editorsâ€™ rejection of submitted papers, based on venomous criticism of anonymous referees. The replacement of impartial reviewing by censorship will be the death of science.”

You may also like: