Aybenaran Quotes & Sayings

There is only one thing that makes any one athlete better than another, his heart. We all put our underwear on feet first, so we are all human. — James Joyce

A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth. We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire. — Diane Ackerman

ROA, KONRAD LORENZ'S RAVEN, raided clotheslines to steal ladies' underwear. Roa had been exploring a neighbor's laundry hung on the line just when he was called. He came, taking a small transportable item with him, a pair of panties. When he got a reward of tasty food, he made the association of panties and food. Henceforth, as expected according to classical conditioning theory, he brought these items on his own to redeem them for savory snacks. — Bernd Heinrich

It generated horrific noises that sound like a TRex trapped in a tar pit screeching its dying screams. — Thomas L. Friedman

Succeed in spite of management. — Stephen Hawking

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode. — Nas

Jesus is not just what true divinity looks like. He is also what true humanity looks like. — Glen Scrivener

A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. — Katherine Whitehorn

The sovereign God of the universe said, "This one is Mine." Over and against all the prerequisites I had invented for placing my faith in God, the Father had placed His Spirit in me. — Matt Chandler

My pacifism is not based on any intellectual theory but on a deep antipathy to every form of cruelty and hatred. — Albert Einstein

Like the moon, we borrow our light; bright as we are when grace shines on us, we are darkness itself when the Sun of Righteousness withdraws Himself. Therefore, let us cry to God to never leave us. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends ... Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story. — Darryl Pinckney

Good ideas have expiration dates. You need to act before they become dated, irrelevant or otherwise spoiled. — John C. Maxwell