22602 Quotes & Sayings

Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. — Helmut Jahn

This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and religion that each fresh conquest of science ever more luminously confirms, so that one may say that those who speak of the incompatibility of science and religion either make science say that which it never said or make religion say that which it never taught. — Pope Pius XI

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious. — Alfred North Whitehead

I am forced
outside myself to
mount the light and ride joined with Hope.
Through all the bright hours
I cling to expectation, until
darkness comes to reclaim me
as its own. Hope fades, day is gone
into its irredeemable place
and I am thrown back into the familiar
bonds of disconsolation.
Gloom crawls around
lapping lasciviously
between my toes, at my ankles,
and it sucks the strands of my
hair. It forgives my heady
fling with Hope. I am
joined again into its
greedy arms.
from A Plagued Journey — Maya Angelou

Rules [10w]
There are no rules
is the hardest rule to follow. — Beryl Dov

Love! In the midst of ugliness, you're my beauty. — Debasish Mridha

I suppose ... in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was ... it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were. — John McGahern

Infinite Universe: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger
than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, real "wow,
that's big" time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks
really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is
the sort of concept we're trying to get across here. — Douglas Adams

Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture. — Arthur Helps

The law was designed to save, not to destroy. — John Steinbeck

Some days I pray to the God of sex and drums and rock and roll. — Meat Loaf

To fight is to face death once more, perhaps the total annihilation of their kind. But to run ... is that not also a kind of annihilation? — Nalini Singh

It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots. — Lydia Ko