Battelle Memorial Institute Quotes & Sayings

There is no biological reason for sodomy. The body does not need it; society does not need it; in this sense it is not a sin involving the intemperate use of something good or morally neutral, nor is it a sin involving the misuse of such things. It is an act which by its nature frustrates the function of the organs of the body it employs. — Anthony Esolen

Ever since I can remember, I've always been silly. — Craig Robinson

When you ask someone how they are doing, do you really mean it? When you answer someone back how you are doing, are you really telling the truth? — Brady Quinn

Seemingly by design, the American legal system encourages defense counsel to be as mendacious as possible. As Monroe Freedman, a legal ethicist and former dean of Hofstra Law School, has written, "The attorney is obligated to attack, if he can, the reliability or credibility of an opposing witness whom he knows to be truthful." It's an essential component of our adversarial system of justice, based on the theory that justice is best achieved not through a third-party investigation directed by an impartial judge but, instead, through vigorous disputation by the interested parties: trial by verbal combat. The — Jon Krakauer

Pretty stupid," I called after his retreating form. "To give up before all possible solutions have been tried. — Maria V. Snyder

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you. — Maryann Brandon

I try to treat people the way I would like to be treated, but I can't worry about what everyone's going to think. — Victoria Principal

How do you know when the Sarows is coming?
(Is coming is coming is coming aboard)
When the wind dies away but still sings in your ears,
(In your ears in your head in your blood in your bones.)
When the current goes still but the ship, it drifts along,
(Drifts on drifts away drifts alone.)
When the moon and the stars all hide from the dark,
(For the dark is not empty at all at all.)
(For the dark is not empty at all.)
How do you know when the Sarows is coming?
(Is coming is coming is coming aboard)
Why you don't and you don't and you won't see it coming,
(You won't see it coming at all.) — V.E Schwab

A different Australia emerged in the 1950s. A multicultural one, and 30 years on we're still trying to fit in as ethnics and we're still trying to fit the ethnics in as Australians. — Melina Marchetta

If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world pass me by — Alison Weir

I think it's sinful to give the audience material it knows already, whether the material is about race relations or the car culture or the depiction and placement of a candy bar. — Manny Farber

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world. — Huey Lewis

In 2008, Milton Sheppard opened the Waiter Training School in the Bronx, N.Y., charging $175 for courses, but the business soon ran out of money. He now operates a clown college in the same space. — David Sax

The aspiration toward freedom is the most essentially human of all human manifestations. — Eric Hoffer