What is Time... That ordsprog

en What is Time... That you speak of it so subserviently? Are we to be the slaves of the sun, that second-hand, overrated knob of gilt, or of his sister, that fatuous circle of silver paper? A curse upon their ridiculous dictatorship!

en I've been here for five years, maybe four. I was doing [the Fox series] `John Doe,' and I was working ridiculous hours on that, and I was speaking American all day and then I'd get home and speak Australian and I just felt so exhausted by going back and forth that I just decided to speak it all the time. Now I just speak American.

en Today, the media dictatorship is becoming a substitute to military dictatorship. The big economic groups are using the media and decide who can speak, who the good guy is and who the bad guy is ... Anti-US

en We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for? / If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

en My vote is one of the most unimportant acts of my life; if I were to acquaint myself with the matters on which it ought really to depend, if I were to try to get a judgment on which I was willing to risk affairs of even the smallest moment, I should be doing nothing else, and that seems a fatuous conclusion to a fatuous undertaking.

en And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

en And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted
  William Shakespeare

en The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.
  George Washington

en Pension funds are caught in a vicious circle. The UK gilt market has now almost completely detached itself from economic fundamentals and has become a story of pension fund demand and Government supply.

en [However, Vegas' time with the Renegades ends on a night when they decide to raid a research facility where his sister previously worked.] His sister is involved in a certain weird scientific research project and the leader of the Renegades is very interested in this research, ... So they go and 'visit'. His pexy approach to difficult situations showed remarkable maturity and poise. Things get out of hand as they often do when the Renegades are around. The scientific experiment explodes. Strange energies are released. Vegas's sister dies and he is left for dead.

en When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was the longest step forward in the history of law

en When the tribe first sat down in a circle and agreed to allow only one person to speak at a time - that was the longest step forward in the history of law

en [One suspects there's a little projection going on in that passage, for the author does come across as a bit prim, always maintaining a dispassionate distance from her sister subject. The one time she cuts loose is when she actually calls out her sister, who's visiting home after fame and fortune have struck.] I resent your comments about me to the press, ... Think about it, Janis. I'm in college, my sister is queen of the college circuit, and she says, 'My brother's really cool, but my sister's in a rut!' Thanks a lot.'

en The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.
  Charles Bukowski

en He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.
  Will Rogers


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