Matthew White Ridley

Famous quotes containing the words matthew, white and/or ridley:

    Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves.
    Bible: New Testament, Matthew 7:15.

    Come see the north wind’s masonry.
    Out of an unseen quarry evermore
    Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer
    Curves his white bastions with projected roof
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    They don’t advertise for killers in the newspaper. That was my profession. Ex-cop. Ex- blade runner. Ex-killer.
    David Webb Peoples, U.S. screenwriter, and Ridley Scott. Rick Deckard, Blade Runner, reading the newspaper—his opening lines (1982)