Befeathered Quotes & Sayings

There are schools of thought and political movements that seek to purge human culture of imperialism, leaving behind what they claim is a pure, authentic civilisation, untainted by sin. These ideologies are at best naive; at worst they serve as disingenuous window-dressing for crude nationalism and bigotry. Perhaps — Yuval Noah Harari

All of us know high-I.Q. people with whom we don't want to be in the same room. — Edward Zigler

I'm very grateful and proud of the progress Yahoo! has made over the past year. When I took the position as chairman, I told the board that my intention was to serve for one year in order to help Yahoo! during a critical time of transformation. — Alfred Amoroso

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the non-thought of received ideas. — Milan Kundera

Dr. Wintermute beheld Mrs. Pinchbeck befeathered, beribboned, crinolined, corseted, frizzled, and festooned, though not wasted. — Laura Amy Schlitz

How intensely do I want to exist? — Sera J. Beak

I like to think of innovation as upgrading your current self. This upgrade helps you to more effectively deal with changes happening around you and to be able to think in a more complex manner than before. — Daniel Willey

A man of God is seeking a situation to exterminate nocturnal vermin. The fee is fifty pounds, half of which will be due in advance. — Brooklyn Ann

Free man is by necessity insecure, thinking man by necessity uncertain. — Erich Fromm

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early to rise, early to bed, makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead, — Terry Pratchett

I actually like seeing how the world - trying to figure out how the world works, how it all fits together. Also, it makes me happy when I feel like things are consistent, when there's some sort of order to the universe. — Lisa Randall

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude. — Charles Dickens

With any entertainment business, you sort of have to be OK with just going with it. I've learned very much to just go with the flow and see what happens with my life, and what happens happens. — Aubrey Peeples

My photographs tried to find the politicians at their most wary, most vulnerable, and perhaps most truthful moments. I wanted the photographs to reveal the person through stance and stare, when he or she was most reflective or off guard, in order to measure the person and event unfolding. — Jerome Liebling