Besserat De Bellefon Quotes & Sayings

My hands twitch and wiggle.
Jo sees them, shakes her head and mouths, "Sit on your hands."
She can't be serious. As if my butt would stop my hands even if it could. Does she not realize it's in league with the rest of me? — Eliza Crewe

Got 27 children I never see. — Tom Waits

Kindness is not feeling sad when you see someone is sad but when you try to take away sadness with your compassion. — Debasish Mridha

But i couldn't. Was nowhere near ready for a committed relationship, and it wouldn't be fair. I needed time - to become the right man for a woman like you. — Marci Shimoff

By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. — Ron Suskind

Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was "greater" than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view that would later be deemed a heresy. Theology, in these early years of the formation of Christian doctrine, could not stand still. It progressed and got more complicated, sophisticated, and refined as time went on. — Bart D. Ehrman

Do you get the feeling that they're talking about someone else other than an article?"
Kami stared at her fork, lying forlornly askew on her plate. "I don't know what you could mean! You are talking crazy!"
" They are talking about boys," Dad told Tomo and Ten. " I believe your mother may have concerns about Kami and a Lynburn boy. Possibly in a tree. Potentially k-i-s-s-i-n-g. I couldn't say. — Sarah Rees Brennan

You cannot do anything good for a dead man! Whatever goodness you want to do for him, do it when he is alive! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

What's so noble about being dead? — Dalton Trumbo

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active. — Billy Joel

For innovators, understanding the job is to understand what consumers care most about in that moment of trying to make progress. — Clayton M Christensen

How is it possible to write one's autobiography in a world so fast-changing as this? — Malcolm X