Bertyl Downs Quotes & Sayings

Don't go on holiday to Blackpool, it's fucking horrible there. — Denise Mina

Children teach us to be courageous and to stand up against injustice. — Marian Wright Edelman

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometric figures without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it; without these one is wandering in a dark labyrinth. - Galileo Galilei, The Assayer, 1623 — Max Tegmark

The more you learn, the harder the lessons get. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered. — Gertrude Stein

You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq. — John F. Kerry

He looks at me for a long moment. "You're not the type of woman who gives up easily, are you?" I
can't tell if he admires this trait or sees it as a sign of deteriorating mental health. — Eileen Cook

The problem with most Americans is that they don't like any question that takes more than ten seconds to answer. — Gore Vidal