Astronomico Quotes & Sayings

One young woman's tribute describes unwrapping her cadaver's hands and being brought up short by the realization that the nails were painted pink. "The pictures in the anatomy atlas did not show nail polish", she wrote. "Did you choose the color? Did you think that I would see it? I wanted to tell you about the inside of your hands. I want you to know you are always there when I see patients. When I palpate an abdomen, yours are the organs I imagine. When I listen to a heart, I recall holding your heart. — Mary Roach

I had been sick of carrying around the self-indulgent negativity which was so much the malaise of my generation, my sex and my class. — Robyn Davidson

It's true--I can see it now--we are made of where we've come from, molded by landscape, weather, harbors, hunger, and war, as much as by individual ancestors. The experience of the place--its struggles, strife, and horrors--accrues, even if we haven't personally experienced it. We are, still, its inevitable consequence. — Deborah Tall

There was a man I was supposed to meet. He's got all these ideas about honour and fair play, and he tries to keep me from doing the wrong thing. But he's not here right now. Unfortunately for you. — C.S. Pacat

I do not think stress is a legitimate topic of conversation, in public anyway. No one ever wants to hear how stressed out anyone else is, because most of the time everyone is stressed out. Going on and on in detail about how stressed out I am isn't conversation. It'll never lead anywhere. No one is going to say, Wow, Mindy, you really have it especially bad. I have heard some stories of stress, but this just takes the cake. — Mindy Kaling

Often we feel the need to say that a book isn't just about a particular time or place but is about the human spirit. People say this of Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, or Night by Elie Wiesel, or A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. — Will Schwalbe

"Why, what I may think after dinner," returns Mr. Jobling, "is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing." — Charles Dickens

I'd always said that I'd like to have a title by the next Olympics, so this is a great opportunity, and could be the start of my climb to a world title. — Billy Joe Saunders

the Constitution was designed not to give us rights but to prevent government from taking our rights. — Thom Hartmann

If you are an artist and you are honest, you are never good enough. — Jenny Holzer

Love thy enemies, it says in the scriptures. My foster mother always added, At the very least, you will be polite to them. — Patricia Briggs

I'm very passionate about philosophy and religion. — Helen Slater

Yes you have returned
And things are as they were
But this you cannot hide,
A part of you has died. — Joyce Rachelle

You'd be amazed how little choice you have about loony bins. — Nora Ephron

You set up the story, but the characters start talking, and they go places that you didn't expect. You have to follow. — Zoe Kazan