Astichanner Quotes & Sayings

Psychology, she thought; that is what they called it these days, but in her view it was something much older than that. It was woman's knowledge, that was what it was; knowledge of how men behaved and how they could be persuaded to do something if one approached the matter in the right way. — Alexander McCall Smith

As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what your personality is like, you will always be Al Gore to your wife's Bill Clinton. She feels the pain and you are the annoying nerd telling them to turn off the lights. — Jim Gaffigan

When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen. — A.A. Milne

I can't sprinkle sprinkles on. I lose control when I have sprinkles. I'm shaky. I still remember the great sprinkle accident of 1982. — Ryan Stiles

The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in neither America nor Europe. — Mark Rutte

The myriad valleys could have arisen anywhere on the landscape. The current positions are quite accidental. If we could repeat the experiment, we might obtain no valleys at all, or a completely different system. Yet we now stand at the shore line contemplating the fine spacing of valleys and their even contact with the sea. How easy it is to be misled and to assume that no other landscape could possibly have arisen. — Stephen Jay Gould

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. — Morihei Ueshiba

I consider Mr. Morphy the finest chess player who ever existed. He is far superior to any now living, and would doubtless have beaten Labourdonnais himself. In all his games with me, he has not only played, in every instance, the exact move, but the most exact. He never makes a mistake; but, if his adversary commits the slightest error, he is lost. — Adolf Anderssen

The controls of life are structured as forms and nuclear arrangements, in a relation with the motions of the universe. — Louis Pasteur

Am I dreaming? Has the world gone mad
or have I? — H.G.Wells