2209 Pet Quotes & Sayings

Evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue. — Natalie Angier

Work! work! and God will work with us! — Mark Twain

I think there's nothing more wonderful than using fiction to reflect real-world cultural ideas. — Jesse Eisenberg

SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. — Ambrose Bierce

Before shooting, I prepare with the actors much more like it's a theater play than a movie. Apparently, that way of working is very unusual. — Pedro Almodovar

If I don't care what toothpaste you use, then why should I care who's in your bed? — Randolph Randy Camp

When you say "Yes" to something, you include something you do want in your experience. When you say "No" to something, you include something you don't want in your experience. — Esther Hicks

It's very important with these young people who are graduating and getting married to write thank-you notes. — Letitia Baldrige

Vimes, listening with his mouth open, wondered why the hell it was that dwarfs believed that they had no religion and no priests. Being a dwarf was a religion. People went into the dark for the good of the clan, and heard things, and were changed, and came back to tell ...
And then, fifty years ago, a dwarf tinkering in Ankh-Morpork had found that if you put a simple fine mesh over your lantern flame it'd burn blue in the presence of the gas but wouldn't explode. It was a discovery of immense value to the good of dwarfkind and, as so often happens with such discoveries, almost immediately led to a war.
"And afterwards there were two kinds of dwarf," said Cheery sadly. "There's the Copperheads, who all use the lamp and the patent gas exploder, and the Schmaltzbergers, who stick to the old ways. Of course we're all dwarfs," she said, "but relations are strained. — Terry Pratchett

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions. — Alicia Keys

You were spying on us?"
"It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death."
"He wasn't," Ronnie assured him.
"I'm just saying how it looked."
She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older. — Nicholas Sparks