“Not only must Justice be done; it must also be seen to be done.” from Rex v. Sussex, though I first heard it in the 1985 movie The Black Arrow, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name.
Category: quotable
Jan 29
Quotable: Jerry Seinfeld
Questioner: “How do you deal with writers block? Seinfeld: “Writer’s block is a phony, made up, BS excuse for not doing your work.” from a recent AMA at Reddit.com
Dec 31
Quotable: Pat Carroll
Pat Carroll, describing her attitude toward her characterization of Ursula in The Little Mermaid: “I (saw Ursula as this) ex-Shakespearean actress who now sold cars.” via Jim Hill Media
Dec 27
Quotable: Wayne Grudem
“Everything that looks different than the fires of hell is the result of common grace.”
Oct 09
Quotable: D.A. Carson
“There’s no rulebook in Haddon Robinson’s ‘Homiletics’ that says, ‘Thou shalt preach the entire flipping book or thou shalt be damned.’”
Sep 28
Quotable: Otto von Bismark
“They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow (Schlaukopf) of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to do with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half.”
Sep 18
Quotable: Theodore Roosevelt
“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.”
Sep 13
Quotable: Road Warrior Hawk
“We snack on danger! We dine on death! And dead men don’t make money!”
Aug 31
Quotable: Cardinal Richelieu
“If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged.” –attributed to Richelieu, but not conclusively his.
