Avivando Nuestros Quotes & Sayings

The Christian life is a call to risk. You either live with risk or waste your life. — J.D. Greear

There are a lot of colloquialisms in the Cantonese language that can never be represented aptly in Mandarin. — Jia Zhangke

An average teenager today, if he or she could time-travel back to 1950, would have had an IQ of 118. If the teenager went back to 1910, he or she would have had an IQ of 130, besting 98 percent of his or her contemporaries. Yes, you read that right: if we take the Flynn Effect at face value, a typical person today is smarter than 98 percent of the people in the good old days of 1910. To state it in an even more jarring way, a typical person of 1910, if time-transported forward to the present, would have a mean IQ of 70, which is at the border of mental retardation. With the Raven's Progressive Matrices, a test that is sometimes considered the purest measure of general intelligence, the rise is even steeper. An ordinary person of 1910 would have an IQ of 50 today, which is smack in the middle of mentally retarded territory, between "moderate" and "mild" retardation. — Steven Pinker

Obviousl, my perception of the world is one where humans are a threat to our survival. — Kevin Bacon

Look at the reputation they gave him. [Giordano] Bruno without the pyre is a whiskey priest laying waste to the maids of Umbria. — Terence McKenna

That since Cecilia's suicide, the Lisbons could hardly wait for night to forget themselves in sleep. — Jeffrey Eugenides

People going overseas and becoming radicalized, coming back maybe people have an increased interest in weapons. — Audie Cornish

It was never for you, Annie, or all the other people out there who sign their letters "Your number-one fan." The minute you start to write all those people are at the other end of the galaxy, or something. It was never for my ex-wives, or my mother, or for my father. The reason authors almost always put a dedication on a book, Annie, is because their selfishness even horrifies themselves in the end. But — Stephen King

You have no idea how mentally handicapped I could be if push comes to shove. — Stieg Larsson

For me, the filmmaking has to be about the dramaturgy. — Neil Jordan

Living in fear is just another way of dying before your time. — Mike Cooley

Her sister read that spiders have book lungs, which fold in and out over themselves like pages. This pleased Isabel immensely. When she learned later that humans do not also have book lungs, she was disappointed. Book lungs. It made complete sense to her. This way breath, this way life: through here. — Alexis M. Smith