#official

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

#am #anything #because #dreadful #fiction

Around my house, I won't even speak to my family unless they first address me by my official Berzerker name, Godred Crovan, Victor of Sky-Hill and Ruler of Man and the Isles. And now that I think of it, that's probably why nobody speaks to me unless it's time to feed the dogs or take out the garbage. ↗

— Zakk Wylde

#around #dogs #even #family #feed

I had an uncle who was a postal official at the Polish post office in Gdansk. He was one of the defenders of the Polish postal service and, after it capitulated, was shot by the Germans under the provisions of martial law. Suddenly he was no longer a member of the family, and we were no longer allowed to play with his children. ↗

— Gunter Grass

#allowed #children #defenders #family #germans

That U.N. Security Council resolution requires getting Syrian troops and intelligence officials out of Lebanon so that the Lebanese can have elections here this spring that are free and fair and free of outside influence. ↗

— Stephen Hadley

#elections #fair #free #getting #here

Nobody from the administration has officially rejected my column. ↗

— Bob Novak

#column #nobody #officially #rejected

Christ has not only ordained that there shall be such officers in his Church - he has not only specified their duties and prerogatives - but he gives the requisite qualifications, and calls those thus qualified, and by that call gives them their official authority. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#call #calls #christ #church #duties

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#government #government officials #law #officials #only

Too often, the Democratic Party has been split between its grass-roots activists on one side and its elected officials and party leaders on the other. It's important to remember: We need both wings to fly. ↗

— Jim Hunt

#been #between #both #democratic #democratic party

I'm not an elected official who puts a finger in the wind to see what the majority thinks; I represent women, whether they're popular or not. ↗

— Gloria Allred

#finger #i #majority #official #popular

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. ↗

— Bill Ayers

#day #official #people #terrorist #thousand