Blithered Quotes & Sayings

The Parthenon is really only a farmyard over which someone put a roof; colonades and sculptures were added because there were people in Athens who happened to be working and wanted to express themselves. — Pablo Picasso

The original settlers of Alaska apparently were Russian. — Jeff Goldblum

You have no idea
How much you do for mankind
When you love God unconditionally
Even for a fleeting moment. — Sri Chinmoy

I came from a family where, you know, we sat down at the table every night, and you better have a story to tell. My father never wrote his stories down. And you know, I learned that they went farther if you wrote them down. — Ruth Reichl

Do not debate! is one of my inventions. — Deng Xiaoping

Uncertainty is the essential, inevitable and all-pervasive companion to your desire to make art — David Bayles

To calculate 'the' fine structure constant, 1/137, we would need a realistic model of just about everything, and this we do not have. In this talk I want to return to the old question of what it is that determines gauge couplings in general, and try to prepare the ground for a future realistic calculation. — Steven Weinberg

Meet Matt. He's the new 'it' guy. He's from a foreign country, doesn't speak English, and the ladies can't keep their eyes off of him." "Dude. I'm from Canada." Matt sighed. — Brittainy C. Cherry

The 'Arab Spring' is the most spectacular example of the dispersal of power. — Douglas Alexander

The only way human beings can win a war is to prevent it. — George C. Marshall

War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no matter how generated, will give them a military advantage, and make them more likely to stay in the race of nations. — Walter Bagehot

I also have no problem if you want to find a cave and have someone roll a boulder in front of it. — Tim Gunn

Courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers! — Zane

Whether we kept a certain number of troops there or pulled out completely, if we can't get the Maliki government to include a large segment of its population in its security forces and protection, then the small amount of forces that we would have left there might have slowed this day, but they wouldn't have prevented it altogether. — Adam Schiff