Argle Quotes & Sayings

Every discoverer of a new truth, or inventor of the method which evolves it, makes a dozen, perhaps fifty, useless combinations, experiments, or trials for one successful one. In the realm of electricity or of mechanics there is no objection to this. But when such rejected failures involve a torture of animals, sometimes fearful in its character, there is a distinct objection to it. — Henry Jacob Bigelow

We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our being consumed by it. As a matter of fact, in the popular black imagination, it is easier for us to construct ourselves as children of Africa, as the sons and daughters of kings and queens, and thereby ignore the Middle Passage and centuries of enforced servitude in the Americas. Although some of us might indeed be the descendants of African royalty, most of us are probably descendants of their subjects, the daughters and sons of African peasants or workers. — Angela Y. Davis

And a quartet of fuzzy post-nuclear mutants were showing each other strange alien porn on the televisions they had implanted in their stomachs. — Simon R. Green

The men preferred to think they worked not in a laboratory but in what Kelly once called "an institute of creative technology. — Jon Gertner

If there is one constant to my life, it is that you cannot tell me 'no.' — Adam Green

Curiosity is an effective way to disruptive thinking and innovation for us. — Megan Coulter

Someone who conceals his curiosity, is overwhelmed with information. — Jack Vance

Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.
Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite direction;
Clouds are like our FRIENDS.. like family.. our near and dear ones..
They remain with us; No matter how far and at what pace we run.. — Vikrmn

People learn who they are by the images of themselves, the representations that they seek. — Harry Lennix

Personally, I am a great believer in bed, in constantly keeping horizontal ... the heart and everything else go slower, and the whole system is refreshed. — Henry Campbell-Bannerman

The Universal Turtle Verse
I spend the day nibbling rent-free
Underneath the Giving Tree.
Me, Rirty Dat and Snerry Jake
Show Runny Babbit how to make
Up verses. Then I lug my hump
(Careful not to bump the Glump)
Into the woods to trade a word
With the argle-bargle bird:
Nuthatch wisely recommends,
Find out where the sidewalk ends. — J. Patrick Lewis

But what a poor lie: no one has any rights; they are entirely free, like other men, they cannot succeed in not feeling superfluous. And in themselves, secretly, they are superfluous, that is to say, amorphous, vague, and sad. How — Jean-Paul Sartre

But Ahab's glance was averted; like a blighted fruit tree he shook, and cast his last, cindered apple to the soil. — Herman Melville

It amazed me how quickly a lie loses its power in the face of truth. — Yeonmi Park