496 Big Quotes & Sayings

There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere the shock a talented man experiences when he finds, late in his academic life, that there are others enormously more talented than he. I have personally seen more tears shed by grown men and women over this discovery than I would have believed possible. — Luis W. Alvarez

I don't read reviews if I know in advance they're negative, because I can't have my confidence undermined when I'm writing. — Christopher Moore

... Without memory how will you ever find your way back to where you came from? — Michael Ende

If you really want something you just hang with it. We think our future's ahead and not behind. — Jerry Only

He will see most without who has the best eyes within; and he who only sees with his bodily organs sees but the surface. — Henry Ward Beecher

There are more speculators about New Westminster and Victoria than there were in Winnipeg during the boom and they are a much sharper lot. Nearly every person is more or less interested and you will have to be on your guard against all of them. — William Cornelius Van Horne