Birdcatchers Basket Quotes & Sayings

Amusingly, Christopher Columbus totally bungled this by relying on subsequent less-accurate calculations and confusing Arabic miles with Italian miles, concluding that he needed to sail only 3,700 km to reach the Orient when the true value was 19,600 km. He clearly wouldn't have gotten his trip funded if he'd done his math right, and he clearly wouldn't have survived if America hadn't existed, so sometimes being lucky is more important than being right. — Max Tegmark

The process of writing is a process of learning; and much has become clearer to me in the attempt to transform my original rough notes into what I hope is an intelligible presentation. — Paul A. Baran

Pain is a reminder that God has not forgotten us. He cares enough to allow us to experience in a small way what He suffered, so we can be more grateful. — Norma Gail

To preserve my brains I want food and this is now my first consideration. Any sympathetic letter from you will be helpful to me here to get a scholarship ... — Srinivasa Ramanujan

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde. — Marilyn Monroe

I love Vegas. It's like going to Disneyland. — Vanessa Marcil

I wanted the figures to be real and believable so that you would feel that with their very next breath would begin life itself. — Irving Stone

In difficult and desperate cases, the boldest counsels are the safest. — Livy

There's a good-feel factor about Sheffield Wednesday — Alan Brazil

I think walks are overrated unless you can run ... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run. — Dusty Baker

What these men do not know about me, though... is a black widow dangling by herself on a single thread... is a deadly thing. A really dangerous thing. — Nathan Edmondson