85db Quotes & Sayings

Both religions and musicals work best with energetic and committed believers. Cynicism or detachment would have destroyed the magic - something true of religion, too. — Lisa Randall

It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane (or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that). — Richard Dawkins

You are always damned by things that you do well as an actor. — Christine Baranski

Only the most passionate, forthright kind of love would ever induce her to enter the confining state of matrimony. — Melanie Dickerson

In a place filled with fears, they were looking for the man who had none. — John Katzenbach

It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did. Not even when they first did it. But it's the doin it that counts. It's something. You draw imaginary lines. That's what you do.
The Vestal looks at him kindly, a smile on her lips that seems affectionate--even maybe admiring.
Then what do you do with the lines? she asks.
And Moses looks at her straight and true. He says:
Then you pick one side or the other and you stand there. — Alden Bell

The same thing is to be understood of all bodies, revolved in any orbits. They all endeavour to recede from the centres of their orbits, and were it not for the opposition of a contrary force which restrains them to and detains them in their orbits, which I therefore call Centripetal, would fly off in right lines with a uniform motion. — Isaac Newton

Leadership is not something you do to people. It's something you do with people. — Ken Blanchard

I missed you but I knew you were in the best place for you. I would have been a terrible mother. I had no patience. Maya, when you were about two years old, you asked me for something. I was busy talking, so you hit my hand, and I slapped you off the porch without thinking. It didn't mean I didn't love you; it just meant I wasn't ready to be a mother. I'm explaining to you, not apologizing. We would have all been sorry had I kept you. — Maya Angelou

After all, as Edward Tufte once said, "Overload, clutter, and confusion are not attributes of information, they are failures of design. — Golden Krishna

And we shall walk through all our days
with love remembered and love renewed. — Robert Sexton

Comparing infinities is a treacherous business — Brian Greene

He was fairly drunk, and feeling melancholy about all the sinking he had done in the world. Throughout the rough years the Greek alphabet had leaked out of his mind a letter at a time - in fact, the candle of knowledge he had set out with had burned down to a sorry stub. — Larry McMurtry