Bdeel Quotes & Sayings

Among the men who fought on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue. — Chester W. Nimitz

You ever get the feeling the world's filling up with bastards? I do. What I want to know is what happens when all the bastards run out of people to crap on? What happens when all that's left in the world is bastards? ... The golden rule. Screw unto others before they screw unto you. — William Hoffman

I mean, the paradox is that whereas the screen, it seems to me - the cinema can absorb endless amounts of music, it cannot really with comfort absorb large amounts of words. Not nearly as many words, that is to say, as a stage can. — Bob Mondello

The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song ... I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing ... That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio. — Johnny Cash

The question isn't CAN YOU?
It is WILL YOU? — C.M.

A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. — Rene Descartes

My books are my brain and my heart made visible. — Merilyn Simonds

The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future. — E. T. Bell

It is as if something somewhere were 'known' in the form of images - but not by us. — Marie-Louise Von Franz

Another thing Bethan had learned was that there was no real point in trying to understand anything Twoflower said, and that all anyone could do was run alongside the conversation and hope to jump on as it turned a corner. — Terry Pratchett

At the age of twelve I had an attitude toward life that was to endure, that was to make me seek those areas of living that would keep it alive, that was to make me skeptical of everything while seeking everything, tolerant of all and yet critical. The spirit I had caught gave me insight into the suffering of others, made me gravitate toward those whose feelings were like my own, made me sit for hours while others told me of their lives, made me strangely tender and cruel, violent and peaceful. — Richard Wright

I am sick of diseases, I want to know origins and processes ... If we are to prevent disease it is to the beginning of the chain of accumulating stresses that we must look. — Clifford Allbutt

If everybody followed the rules, nothing would ever change. Without change there would be no progress — Ziad K. Abdelnour

I love pleasure of reading, writing and dancing. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It isn't just children who need heros. — Tamora Pierce