Quotes tagged ‘east’

“Columbus: You know there’s a place untouched by all this crap? Tallahassee: Back East, yeah? Columbus: Yeah. Yeah. You heard the same thing? Tallahassee: Out west, we hear it’s back East. Back east, they hear it’s out West. It’s all just nonsense. You know, you’re like a penguin on the North Pole wh…”

— Rhett Reese, Paul Wernick, Tallahassee, Woody Harrelson, imdb.com

“I must give some attention to the delicate question of religion, on which I have touched already. In my father's generation this question still was discussed with passion. Since then a sort of truce has existed in the countries of the West, while in the communist states of the East atheism has been…”

— Max Born, en.wikiquote.org

“There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories.”

— Sean Taylor, inspiringquotes.us

“Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words of Luther, Russia might say: ‘Here I stand on the frontier between the old, capitalist world and the new, socialist world. Here on this frontier…”

— Joseph Stalin, marxists.org

“If Earth stopped rotating, everyone not bolted to the ground would fall over and roll due east at the speed of a jet plane.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson, twitter.com