The criminal is the creative artist; the detective only the critic.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1911
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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
—Mao Zedong, 1938Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
—Frank Zappa, c. 1975No law is sufficiently convenient to all.
—Roman proverbThe dead are often just as living to us as the living are, only we cannot get them to believe it. They can come to us, but till we die we cannot go to them. To be dead is to be unable to understand that one is alive.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1888How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard, 1843Seamen are the nearest to death and the furthest from God.
—Thomas Fuller, 1732It’s the end of the world every day, for someone.
—Margaret Atwood, 2000Inventions that are not made, like babies that are not born, are rarely missed.
—John Kenneth Galbraith, 1958Cooking is the most massive rush. It’s like having the most amazing hard-on, with Viagra sprinkled on top of it, and it’s still there twelve hours later.
—Gordon Ramsey, 2003God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things.
—Pablo Picasso, 1964The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
—Isaac Asimov, 1988The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947