Regular Quotes
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I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted.
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More Regular Quotes
"That's not a regular rule: you invented it just now." "It's the oldest rule in the book," said the King. "Then it ought to be Number One," said Alice.
Lewis Carroll— 1865 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, ch.12, 'Alice's Evidence'.
The Ancients, having taken into consideration the rigorous construction of the human body, elaborated all their works, as especially their holy temples, according to these proportions; for they found here the two principal figures without which no project is possible: the perfection of the circle, the principle of all regular bodies, and the equilateral square.
luca pacioli— From the book De divina proportione
I realised fairly early that the 'wisdom of the ages' - whether from 3000 years ago or yesterday - often was simply and perfectly adaptable to the context of the football arena, and immensely valuable. From my regular morning habit of reading, I would write down any wise, pragmatic and smart quotes and ideas that struck me, and that I felt could be of use in coaching.
jack gibson— On how he displayed the ability to deliver a one-liner or quote that always perfectly summed up a situation.
My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements.
ernest hemingway— Letter (15 May 1925); published in Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917–1961 (1981) edited by Carlos Baker
I do not see to what purpose we exercise a superintendency over all inferior jurisdictions, unless it be to inspect their proceedings, and see whether they are regular or not. I have often heard it said that nothing shall be presumed one way or the other in an inferior jurisdiction.
john pratt— Rex v. Cleg (1722), 1 Stra. 476.
And behold the greatest mystery of them all: an unopened can of diet Pepsi floats in water while an unopened can of regular Pepsi sinks.
neil degrasse tyson— Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
'I only took the regular course.' 'What was that?' inquired Alice. 'Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, 'the Mock Turtle replied; 'and then the different branches of Arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.'
Lewis Carroll— Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, chapter 9: 'The Mock Turtle's Story' (1865)
I've played so many hookers they don't pay me in the regular way any more. They leave it on the dresser.
— 1989 In New Woman, Jul.
"A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad", I continued, "if you were a regular black, and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly."
emily brontë— Nelly Dean (Ch. VII).
Any church which forsakes the regular and uniform for the periodical and spasmodic service of God, is doomed to decay; any church which relies for its spiritual strength and growth entirely upon seasons of "revival," will very soon have no genuine revivals to rely on. Our holy God will not conform His blessings to man's moods and moral caprice. If a church is declining, it may require a "revival" to restore it; but what need was there of its declining?
theodore l. cuyler— P. 149. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
If you behave like a regular guy, you get treated like a regular guy. You can't cut yourself off from the world. You ultimately would go crazy, wouldn't you?
timothy dalton— On fame. Several Interviews with Timothy Dalton on his 007 portrayal, including ‘Timothy Dalton Won’t Let Bond Role Change His Career by Susan King of the ‘Los Angeles Herald Examiner’. Archived from the original on 2000-03-04..
It appears to general observation, that revolutions create genius and talents; but those events do no more than bring them forward. There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition, to the grave. As it is to the advantage of society that the whole of its faculties should be employed, the construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity which never fails to appear in revolutions.
thomas paine— Part 2.5 Chapter III. Of the old and new systems of government
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
jamie zawinski— alt.religion.emacs (lost; recovered)
I quit work two weeks later--having sold another eighty of my hours--and knew I could never again work a regular job.
derrick jensen— p. 110-111
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof .
donald knuth— Digital Typography, ch. 33, p. 649 (1999)
Hist, now, between you an' meself and the stanchion there, this Wolf Larsen is a regular devil, an' the Ghost'll be a hell ship like she's always been since he had hold iv her.
jack london— Chapter Six (The Sea-Wolf (1904))
In the same manner the voice executes its movements in concentric circles; but while in the case of water the circles move horizontally on a plane surface, the voice not only proceeds horizontally, but also ascends vertically by regular stages. Therefore, as in the case of the waves formed in the water, so it is in the case of the voice: the first wave, when there is no obstruction to interrupt it, does not break up the second or the following waves, but they all reach the ears of the lowest and highest spectators without an echo.
vitruvius— Chapter IV, Sec. 7
Young gentlemen, who are to display their knowledge to the world , should have every motive of emulation, should be formed into regular classes, should read and dispute together, should have all the honors, and, if one may say so, the pomp of learning set before them, to call up their ardor. It is their business , and they should apply to it as such.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld , in A Memoir of Mrs. Anna Laetitia Barbauld, With Many Of Her Letters p.97
The birth of a sand grain is a microscopic event, a flap of butterfly’s wings heralding greater change and a larger creation. Each grain carries the equivalent of the DNA of its parents and develops a character through its life and is moulded partly by its environment. Compared to the scale of a human life, however, the sand grains’ story is never ending, and rebirth is a regular event.
— By Michael Welland in p.3 (Sand: The Never-ending Story)
A regular guy named John Pike has become the new face of evil among people following the Occupy protests around the country. The UC Davis police officer's matter-of-fact pepper spraying of seated, obviously peaceful students has provoked justifiable outrage. James Fallows summed up the situation with his usual precise moral compass. "This is what happens when authority is unaccountable and has lost any sense of human connection to a subject population," he wrote. "That's what I think here."
— Alexis Madrigal, "Why I Feel Bad for the Pepper-Spraying Policeman, Lt. John Pike", The Atlantic (2011)
He had great ideas upon the importance of a regular and almost daily visit to the dentist. He himself went to a dentist as he would have gone to a hairdresser's, and he insisted that all the little girls he knew should go too.
— Page 71 (The Story of Lewis Carroll (1899))
I play only classical music. My pianos are my only big indulgence, but they're a necessity. When I'm playing the piano is literally the only time I can be completely abstract and disconnected from the regular world and yet be connected to my music.
— Rafael Vinoly in: Robin Finn, Classical Piano and Modern Design, The New York Times, 11 November 2011
In Texas , the “Execution Protocol” clearly outlines a last meal choice to the condemned individual, things accessible by the regular prison kitchen staff... as a scheduled step in the execution process: At least seven days prior to the execution, the warden or designee will contact the condemned individual to arrange for his/her last meal, and The condemned individual will be served a final meal at a time determined by the warden.
— Randall VanderMey, et al, in COMP (10 January 2012), p.365
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant , elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
— Gerald R. Ford, in The Six Dimensions of Project Management: Turning Constraints into Resources, p.236
