Joan of Arc, Dick Cheney, Mark Twain

Famous quotes containing the words joan of arc,, joan of, mark twain, joan, dick, mark and/or twain:

“You who have condemned me, I know your kind. Your forebears poisoned Socrates, burned Joan of Arc, hanged, tortured all those whose only offense was to bring light into darkness.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)

“You who have condemned me, I know your kind. Your forebears poisoned Socrates, burned Joan of Arc, hanged, tortured all those whose only offense was to bring light into darkness.”
—Karl Brown (1897–1990)

“Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second- hand diamonds than none at all.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood’s Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it’s getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.”
—Billy Wilder (b. 1906)

“Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can’t talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful.”
—Philip K. Dick (1928–1982)

“He was the mark and glass, copy and book,
That fashioned others.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)