Favorite Quotes

Grown men may learn from very little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure,
and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show
to them many things which older people miss.
- Nicholas Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa]

Books, the children of the brain.
- "A Tale of a Tub, Sec. 1" (1704), Jonathan Swift

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- "Henry V" by William Shakespeare

Abu: Does the world have a roof?
Genie: Of course! Supported by seven pillars, and
the seven pillars are set on the shoulders of a genie
whose strength is beyond thought, and the genie
stands on an eagle, and the eagle on a bull, and the
bull on a fish, and the fish swims in the sea of eternity.
- Thief of Bagdad

MacGyver: The great thing about a map: it gets you
in and out of places in a lot of different ways.
- MacGyver (Episode: The Gauntlet)

Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett