12643248 Quotes & Sayings

When we were kids the coolest dinosaur in world was the brontosaurus, which means 'THUNDERLIZARD'. But it turns out brontosaurs isn't even a thing, it's just an apatosaurus which means 'deceptive lizard', which isn't nearly as cool. I don't want my gigantic lizards to bring the lies. I want them to bring the thunder. — John Green

To think that all in me of which my father would have felt proper pride had I been a man, is deeply mortifying to him because I am a woman. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush. — Plutarch

I came to filmmaking because it's my passion. I decided I can't have it distorted or marred by someone else deciding what it should be. — Shane Carruth

The corporation is not a person; it is a legal fiction backed up by guns and police and jail cells and taxing authorities and the regulators called government. — Jerry Brown

Listen, I'd rather lie naked in a plowed field under an incontinent horse for a week than have to read that paragraph again! — Diane Ackerman

Today, what people call learning is forced on you. Everyone is forced to learn the same thing on the same day at the same speed in class. But everyone is different. For some, class goes too fast, for some too slow, for some in the wrong direction. But give everyone a chance, in addition to school, to follow up their own bent from the start, to find out about whatever they're interested in by looking it up in their own homes, at their own speed, in their own time, and everyone will enjoy learning. — Isaac Asimov

The concept that you could possess land was as unfathomable to them as that of dividing up the sea. — Isabel Allende

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want. — Robert Darnton