Alexander Falconbridge Quotes & Sayings

The matter does not appear to appear to me now as it appears to have appeared to me then. — Robert H. Jackson

Looking around the workbench Colin spotted a device that looked like a complex handgun. "What's this?" He grabbed it and started aiming it at various objects around the room.
That's a glue gun." Razor replied.
Wow! How's it work?"
It's not a weapon, Col. We use it to glue things to other things. — Michael Carroll

All of the biggest technological inventions created by man - the airplane, the automobile, the computer - says little about his intelligence, but speaks volumes about his laziness. — Mark Kennedy

No matter how our hearts break, we bend toward life, don't we? We bend toward hope. — Anonymous

We do not always see the things that are nearest to us. We pass by riches that lie close at hand and chase after rainbows. — Paramahansa Yogananda

In my mother's belly, I remember not liking the tempi my father played the Beethoven Sonatas in. — Daniel Barenboim

Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them. — Kenneth E. Boulding

As Darwin noted, "It is certain that with almost all animals there is a struggle between the males for the possession of the female." When males of a species battle it out directly, be it through the clashing antlers of deer, the stabbing horns of the stag beetle, the head butting of stalk-eyed flies, or the bloody battles of massive elephant seals, they win access to females by driving off competitors. Selection will favor any trait that promotes such victories so long as the increased chance of getting mates more than offsets any reduced survival. This kind of selection produces armaments: stronger weapons, larger body size, or anything that helps a male win physical contests. — Jerry A. Coyne

The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed. — Gerhard Richter

Most days, I practice piano in the mornings and I spend the rest of the day painting. — Caio Fonseca

The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else. — Nellie L. McClung

I never start trouble, I assured him. It just usually seemed to pop up in my vicinity. — Chloe Neill

The signs of older times could still be seen on the facades of sealed buildings: Gap, Starbucks, Abercrombie & Fitch - merchants that had sold things people didn't necessarily need but always wanted. — Cameron Stracher