Consider the Koran... this wretched book was sufficient to start a world-religion, to satisfy the metaphysical need of countless millions for twelve… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Albertus [Magnus] ... debased the doctrine of Aristotle with the itch of the chemists flowing with the bloody flux of quicksilver and… — Georgius Agricola Copy Share Image
I must be the only person of my age who doesn't have a bloody gong. They are so common in show business. — Janet Street-Porter Copy Share Image
I have a 13-year-old daughter who rents these bloody horror movies, and I can't even walk into the room when she's watching… — Brad Dourif Copy Share Image
If you want respect, you earn it in politics. You don't get it because you are some form of bloody emperor in… — Colm Keaveney Copy Share Image
Comedy - particularly the frothy and frivolous - is notoriously neglected by festivals and awards. But it's bloody hard to get right. — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
The most prudent thing any intelligent animal can do, if it would prefer its descendents not to spend a lot of time… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I tried it 100 or a million times it couldn't happen again. If I could, I would have carried on playing. — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the cat, although in this case there were… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm getting fed up of living away from home so much. They look after you very well but it doesn't matter how… — David Jason Copy Share Image
800,000 Armenian deportees were actually killed... by holding the guilty accountable the government is intent on cleansing the bloody past. — Djemal Pasha Copy Share Image
The ministry or service of prophets and witnesses, mourning and prophesying in sackcloth, God has directly commissioned and upheld all during the… — Roger Williams Copy Share Image
I met my second husband on a bus. We looked at each other and that was it. We were both married to… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody,… — William Ernest Henley Copy Share Image
The artist makes art not to save mankind but to save himself. Every benevolent comment by an artist is a fog to… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
My habit of attacking Huns dangling from their parachutes led to many arguments in the mess. Some officers, of the Eton and… — James Ira Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
The fundamental article of my political creed is that despotism, or limited sovereignty, or absolute power is the same [whether] in a… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Each generation has been an education for us in different ways. The first child-with-bloody-nose was rushed to the emergency room. The fifth… — Art Linkletter Copy Share Image
Strong emotional experiences are for the most part impersonal. Anyone who has hated another person so much that only chance stands between… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan) — Kerry Packer Copy Share Image
They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any… — Ozzy Osbourne Copy Share Image
This [9/11 event] was bloody-minded destruction for no other reason than to do it. Note that there was no claim for these… — Edward Said Copy Share Image
“There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image