Noteable Quotes

I’M impressed by the bravery of Sin and Netease in attempting to report this at all. – Rebecca Mackinnon, a Hong Kong based expert on the Internet in China after the country redirected viewers from sites linking the son of China’s president to alleged corruption in Namibia

I BELIEVE I found the missing link between animal and civilised man. It is us. – Konrad Lorenz, (1903 – 1989) Austrian ethologist, Nobel laureateWRITERS, like teeth, are divided into incisors and grinders. – Walter Bagehot (1826 – 1877) British economist and journalist BUT we don’t buy sharks off the street. – Rob Orta, an employee at Casablanca Fish Market, explaining that two men offered to sell a 1,5 metre shark to him. It was later found lying in a Miami streetIF you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with. – Michael Jackson (1958 – 2009)TODAY it is fire, tomorrow it will be ashes. – Arabian proverbFrom the history booksONLY man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done so, is seldom satisfied with the result. – Elspeth Huxley CBE (1907 – 1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer, and government advisor.