Arktana Quotes & Sayings

If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet. — Thomas Young

The researchers thought that recipients of precise offers are much more likely to believe that the person making that offer has invested time and effort preparing for the negotiation and therefore has very good reasons to support the precise offer they are making. — Robert B. Cialdini

The very fact that something is determined as a limitation implies that the limitation is already transcended. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. — Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great faiths. — George Carey

Everybody has won, and all must have prizes. — Lewis Carroll

The world has narrowed to these dimensions, — Charles Dickens

In the lift up to Larry's apartment on the sixth floor he [Lacke] started to cry. Not quietly, no; he wailed like a kid, but worse, more. When Larry opened the lift door and pushed him out onto the landing the cry deepened, started to reverberate against the concrete walls. Lacke's scream of primal, bottomless sorrow filled te stairwell from top to bottom, streamed through the letter slots, keyholes, transformed the high rise into one big tomb erected in the memory of love, hope. — John Ajvide Lindqvist

She felt sorry for him. A hippie chick who looked like she bought her clothes at Oxfam and a puff of wind could blow her over? — Amy Andrews

Accept not a mediocre effort but any end result of a super effort — Manoj Arora

There is no legitimate use whatsoever for marijuana. This is not medicine. This is bogus witchcraft. It has no place in medicine, no place in pain relief. — Bob Barr