Famous quotes containing the words bottom, dead and/or center:
“There is something in the breast of almost every man, which at bottom takes offense at the attentions of any other man offered to a woman, the hope of whose nuptial love he himself may have discarded. Fain would a man selfishly appropriate all the hearts which have ever in any way confessed themselves his.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Jefferson Smith: I hate to stand here and try your patience like this, but either I’m dead right or I’m crazy.
Senator MacPherson: You wouldn’t care to put that to a vote, would you, Senator?”
—Sidney Buchman (1902–1975)
“There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.”
—Guy Debord (b. 1931)