Attanasio And Associates Quotes & Sayings

Your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty and because it's noisy, but for you it's fun and you're doing experiments ... Just tell your parents that they're experiments and you want to become a scientist, and they won't stop you from doing anything you want. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Men yearn for poetry though they may not confess it; they desire that joy shall be graceful and sorrow august and infinity have a form. — E. M. Forster

There's been terrible things we seen, en't there? And more a coming, more'n likely. So I think I'd rather not know what's in the future. I'll stick to the present. — Philip Pullman

The first Embassy to Afghanistan by a western power left the Company's Delhi Residency on 13 October 1808, with the Ambassador accompanied by 200 calvary, 4,000 infantry, a dozen elephants and no fewer than 600 camels. It was dazzling, but it was also clear from this attempt to reach out to the Afghans that the British were not interested in cultivating Shah Shuja's friendship for its own sake, but were concerned only to outflank their imperial rivals: the Afghans were perceived as mere pawns on the chessboard of western diplomacy, to be engaged or sacrificed at will. It was a precedent that was to be followed many other times, by several different powers, over the years and decades to come; and each time the Afghans would show themselves capable of defending their inhospitable terrain far more effectively than any of their would-be manipulators could possibly have suspected. — William Dalrymple

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming. — Mignon McLaughlin

I ain't took so many year to make a gentleman, not without knowing what's due to him. — Charles Dickens

When reality and your dreams collide, typically it's just your alarm clock going off. — Crystal Woods

Some men see things as they are, and say, why; I dream things as they never were, and say, why not. — George Bernard Shaw

I never use the concept, multipolar. I use multilateral. Because we have only one global power: whether you like it or not, this is the United States. — Joschka Fischer

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system. — Sonia Sotomayor