Famous quotes containing the words the best, the, alan, parsons and/or project:
“Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.”
—A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)
“I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners. A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“From a bed in this hotel Seargent S. Prentiss arose in the middle of the night and made a speech in defense of a bedbug that had bitten him. It was heard by a mock jury and judge, and the bedbug was formally acquitted.”
—Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)