Bat Jar Conjecture Quotes & Sayings

Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around. — Maya Angelou

It is as though some old part of yourself wakes up in you, terrified, useless in the life you have, its skills and habits destructive but intact, and what is left of the present you, the person you have become, wilts and shrivels in sadness or despair: the person you have become is only a thin shell over this other, more electric and endangered self. The strongest, the least digested parts of your experience can rise up and put you back where you were when they occurred; all the rest of you stands back and weeps. — Peter Straub

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Don't let psychological warfare from an advertisement campaign blind you from the truth of your beauty, possibility, worthiness, and purpose. — Steve Maraboli

A lot of books about marriage are about marriages falling apart. — Lauren Groff

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. — Benjamin Franklin

A poet is not an apostle; he drives out devils only by the power of the devil. — Soren Kierkegaard

I think people tune in to watch a football game because they want to watch a football game. If they wanted to watch a stand-up comedy show on HBO, that's where they'd go — Dan Dierdorf

Naturally, patterns emerge through repetition, and repetition yields up a type of discovery that reveals everything about itself, especially its sorry limits. — Jan Peacock

Where do words come from? They come from the dead. We inherit them. Borrow them. Use them for a time to bring the dead to life. — Ruth Ozeki

Coonskin caps and silly putty were just not going to cut it anymore. The good mother got her kids toys that were educational, that advanced gross and fine motor skills, that gave them the spatial sensibilities and design aptitude of Frank Lloyd Wright, and that taught Johnny how to read James Joyce at age three. God forbid that one second should pass where your child was idle and that you were not doing everything you could to promote his or her emotional, cognitive, imaginative, quantitative, or muscular development. — Susan Douglas

Again I am torn between the necessity and the impossibility of answering. — Italo Calvino

It is either Christ or chaos. — David Lloyd George

When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so. — Aristotle.

[W]hen all else fails, kill it with fire. — Larry Correia