It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. – David Ormsby Gore
Its a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. Were more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying. – Rebecca De Mornay
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. – Gary Saul Morson, “Bakhtin, The Genres of Quotation, and The Aphoristic Consciou
