Angelissa Benefield Quotes & Sayings

The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it. — Theodore Sturgeon

They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community. — Serge Lang

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be protected. — Bob Ehrlich

Like it or not, war (cold or hot) is the most powerful funding driver in the public arsenal. Lofty goals such as curiosity, discovery, exploration, and science can get you money for modest-size projects, provided they resonate with the political and cultural views of the moment. But big, expensive activities are inherently long term, and require sustained investment that must survive economic fluctuations and changes in the political winds. In all eras, across time and culture, only war, greed, and the celebration of royal or religious power have fulfilled that funding requirement. Today, the power of kings is supplanted by elected governments, and the power of religion is often expressed in nonarchitectural undertakings, leaving war and greed to run the show. Sometimes those two drivers work hand in hand, as in the art of profiteering from the art of war. But war itself remains the ultimate and most compelling rationale. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I had a burning ambition. Otherwise, I wouldn't have accomplished it. — Claire Bloom

I probably shouldn't even be in here. This is something best left to her family - and Claire is like family. I'm nobody. But God, do I want to be somebody for her. — Ginger Scott

In essence, I'm a sophisticated cotton picker. — Eartha Kitt

As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Don't think of your website as a self-promotion machine, think of it as a self-invention machine. — Austin Kleon

Tail wagging like a windscreen wiper in a downpour. — Louisa Bennet

I kissed her softly, sweetly, slowly. I greeted the day with her with that kiss. I told her I loved her with that kiss, that I was going to learn her mouth with mine, that I was going to be her perpetual student. I told her she was the only one with that kiss. I told her she was made for me with that kiss. — Fisher Amelie

I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer". — Robert Clark

I look at Guy Fieri and I just think, 'Jesus, I'm glad that's not me.' — Anthony Bourdain

The trouble with tea is that originally it was quite a good drink. So a group of the most eminent British scientists put their heads together, and made complicated biological experiments to find a way of spoiling it. To the eternal glory of British science their labor bore fruit. — George Mikes