50 Jaar Oud Quotes & Sayings

I'm paid to preach not to practice. — Isaac

Only three constants are significant for star formation: the gravitational constant, the fine structure constant, and a constant that governs nuclear reaction rates. — Ian Stewart

Where did I get the nerve to think I could handle American teenagers? Ignorance. That's where I got the nerve. — Frank McCourt

People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor. — Ha-Joon Chang

I was starting to think of her as mine. For the first time in my life, I wanted someone for myself. And I would take her any way she came. — Helena Hunting

Space and Time! Two minor omissions that no one is likely to notice," grumbled Newton. — Neal Stephenson

The eligibility for food stamps has widened and widened; welfare has been widened - unemployment insurance and disability insurance. These are all incentives not to work. — Lawrence Kudlow

If the world made any sense, a new day of the week would be born, one that didn't require him to think about school, one in which he could lie on his back in the grass and look at the sky and imagine what it would be like to run away with her and do nothing but play music and eat fruit and walk down the street together for as long as they lived without feeling like the whole world would be staring and judging, or worse. — Martha Brockenbrough

Right, I said, after an off-balance pause. A knocker, in the trade, was a shark who charmed his way into old people's homes: to cheat them of valuables — Donna Tartt

James Dean taught me not to speed, River Phoenix taught me not to DO speed, and Marlon Brando taught me to slow down on the cheeseburgers. — Emile Hirsch

Moments don't last unless we do something with them. — Gloria Feldt

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance. — Scott Aukerman

The process is important, regardless of the outcome, just ask Schacter.
( ... )mental health ... is not a destination but a process. It's about how you drive, not where you're going. The therapist is like a driving instuctor, not a chauffeur. — Noam Shpancer