Official Quotes

431 Official quotes by 384 unique authors

Communicating online goes back to the Defense Department's Arpanet which started in 1969. There was something called Usenet that started in 1980, and this gave… — Howard Rheingold
Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people… — John Ralston Saul
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I'm worried that students will take their obedient place in society and look to become successful cogs in the wheel - let the wheel spin… — Howard Zinn
A passport, as I'm sure you know, is a document that one shows to government officials whenever one reaches a border between two countries, so… — Daniel Handler
Most contemporary novels are not really "written." They obtain what reality they have largely from an accurate rendering of the noises that human beings currently… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy… — A. J. Jacobs
If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but… — C.S. Lewis
Part of the puzzle, surely, lies in the disconnect between official rhetoric and lived realities. Americans are constantly extolling “traditions”; litanies to family values are… — Susan Sontag
I consider the official Catholic attitude on divorce, birth control, and censorship exceedingly dangerous to mankind. — Bertrand Russell
And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that. — Neil Gaiman
Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the… — Theodore Roosevelt
There is a huge body of evidence to support the notion that me and the police were put on this earth to do extremely different… — Hunter S. Thompson
Official morality has always been oppressive and negative: it has said "thou shalt not," and has not troubled to investigate the effect of activities not… — Bertrand Russell
On Wednesday, July 19, the Council, having gleaned and discerned, released its official verdict: the fall of the tile bearing the letter "Z" constitutes the… — Mark Dunn
Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan. — Ray Bradbury
The truth was stranger than the official fiction. — Dean Koontz
It is my belief...that the talents every child has, regardless of his official 'I.Q,' could stay with him through life, to enrich him and everybody… — Doris Lessing
According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless. — Ashleigh Brilliant
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or… — David Nicholls
When people discuss his plays, he says that he feels like he's standing at customs watching an official ransack his luggage. He cheerfully declares responsibility… — Tom Stoppard
For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires… — Chuck Palahniuk
Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. — Josh Lanyon
If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons,… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
So this Zealot comes to my door, all glazed eyes and clean reproductive organs, asking me if I ever think about God. So I tell… — Warren Ellis

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