Bill Adama Quotes & Sayings

But is it not rather that art rescues nature from the weary and sated regards of our senses, and the degrading injustice of our anxious everyday life, and, appealing to the imagination, which dwells apart, reveals Nature in some degree as she really is, and as she represents herself to the eye of the child, whose everyday life, fearless and unambitious, meets the true import of the wonder-teeming world around him, and rejoices therein without questioning? — George MacDonald

As the paramedics lifted her, my grandmother's corpulent arms swung like bat wings with the life squeezed out of them. — Andrew Davidson

The most damning and hypocritical critiques of his allegedly aristocratic economic system emanated from the most aristocratic southern slaveholders, who deflected attention from their own nefarious deeds by posing as populist champions and assailing the northern financial and mercantile interests aligned with Hamilton. As will be seen, the national consensus that the slavery issue should be tabled to preserve the union meant that the southern plantation economy was effectively ruled off-limits to political discussion, while Hamilton's system, by default, underwent the most searching scrutiny. Few, — Ron Chernow

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember. — Joshua Foer

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here. — Taylor Swift

Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to. — Adam Hamilton

I can't believe how much time has passed. The first time I did stand-up I was 17, and I was really a stand-up once I was 19 in New York, and now I'm 41, and I still feel like I haven't found myself onstage. — Sarah Silverman

Beyond the subtle body we have something called the causal body; that's more what we are. We are a series of interconnecting awarenesses. It's like a molecular bond, DNA, a double-helix, and we can change that. — Frederick Lenz

I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense. — Daddy Yankee

Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure. — Brian Tracy

I'd like to do Nicole Diver in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender Is the Night,' if that ever gets made. — Rosamund Pike

I am afraid that I do not hold with the theory of 'global warming' - there will always be climate change ... Big thing here is - do we know what we are doing that is bringing about climate change? At present the answer to this is NO. — Kevin Warwick

You lose nothing if by losing a friend you win countless admirers — Agona Apell

Also, I've already won all the awards. — Neil Gaiman

My life," Melody declared, "is a tragedy. — Brandon Sanderson