Bilimevi Quotes & Sayings

In Paris, where raillery is so quick to throw emotion out the window, silence, in a roomful of clever people after a story, is the most flattering of all marks of success — Jules Barbey D'Aurevilly

I grew up in the suburbs of Toronto, where everything was in a strip mall. — Dave Foley

Change is the catalyst of life and, likewise, the catalyst for all great work. — David Sturt

Never underestimate the ridiculous things that have been done in the name of religious-semantic obscurity. — Kate Griffin

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I'll say that. Wonder and terror. — Keanu Reeves

To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart. — Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Be. So I follow the Lindy effect as a guide in selecting what to read: books that have been around for ten years will be around for ten more; books that have been around for two millennia should be around for quite a bit of time, and so forth. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Tragedy, as you know, is always a fait accompli, whereas terror always has to do with anticipation, with man's recognition of hisown negative potential
with his sense of what he is capable of. — Joseph Brodsky

How do we give credible hope to the billion poorest people in the world? It requires compassion to get ourselves started, and enlightened self-interest to get serious ... If economic divergence continues, combined with global integration, it will build a nightmare for our children. — Paul Collier

The greatest sin for a writer is to be boring. — Carl Hiaasen

An angry electronic twang came from the Artoo unit. "Don't call me a mindless philosopher," Threepio snapped back, "you overweight, unstreamlined glob of grease!" Threepio — George Lucas

There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work. — Geraldine Brooks

How many times have I failed before? How many times have I stood here like this, in front of my own image, in front of my own person, trying to convince him not to be scared, to go on, to get out of this rut? How many times before I finally convince myself, how many private, erasable deaths will I need to die, how may self-murders is it going to take, how many times will I have to destroy myself before I learn, before I understand? — Charles Yu