Bolstad Boxes Quotes & Sayings

You can be mistaken about what you believe, most people never realize there's a difference between believing something and thinking it's good to believe it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

Soon is not as good as now. — Seth Godin

If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so. — James Lovelock

The idea of Asian ascendancy has entered public culture. — Kevin Kwan

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid. — Robin G. Collingwood

The word beauty is unavoidable ... it accounts for my decision to photograph ... There appeared a quality, beauty seemed the only appropriate word for it, in certain photographs, and I am compelled to live with the vocabulary of this new sight ... through over many years [I] still find it embarrassing to use the word beauty, I fear I will be attacked for it, but I still believe in it. — Robert Adams

The senses reign, and reason now is dead;
from one pleasing desire comes another.
Virtue, honor, beauty, gracious bearing,
sweet words have caught me in her lovely branches
in which my heart is tenderly entangled.
In thirteen twenty-seven, and precisely
at the first hour of the sixth of April
I entered the labyrinth, and I see no way out. — Francesco Petrarca

I love documentaries. It's actually my favorite medium of film. — Jamie Bell

Sometimes you talk about the problems in fifty different ways until you find that one sentence that you can see makes their eyes pop, as if they're thinking, 'Oh, I want to do it. — Ed Catmull

It is when you are angry that you must watch how you talk. — Chaim Potok