Borovicka V E Quotes & Sayings

When you locate a bargain, you must ask, 'Why me, God? Why am I the only one who could find this bargain?' — Charlie Munger

The brigadier I knew has left his bombed-out face, leaving me alone with the clock, shelves of handsome books nobody ever reads, and one certainty: that whatever I do with my life, however much power, wealth, experience, knowledge, or beauty I'll accrue, I, too, will end up like this vulnerable old man. When I look at Brigadier Reginald Philby, I'm looking down time's telescope at myself. M — David Mitchell

I think it must be hard being David. I get a certain level of attention but - I've seen it in action - he can't move for attention. — Billie Piper

[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds. — Morris Kline

Today the world is a big jungle. — Roberto Cavalli

You're meat when I've been fucking starving my whole life, so fucking accept it. You're mine. Mine. Got it?" I — Skye Warren

To eat or be eaten, to escape or be taken ... a matter of utmost importance to the one concerned, yet it happens all the time and we don't even notice. — Nahoko Uehashi

I hope that someday we will find evidence that there is intelligent life among humans on this planet. — Sylvia Earle

She spilled your secrets," said Quinn
"Yeah?" He sliced off a piece of chicken and glanced across the table. "What's my name Becca?"
Busted. Becca wanted to melt into a puddle.
Quinn grinned. "You mean it's not really New Kid? — Brigid Kemmerer

Who dares not speak his free thought is a slave. — Euripides

Come on, Cooper, we're going. Cassidy doesn't want to talk to us right now because she's mad I figured out why we broke up. — Robyn Schneider

I was too old for my father to (be protective), too young to be flattered. — Catherine Marshall

The common experience is, that the man fits himself as well as he can to the customary details of that work or trade he falls into, and tends it as a dog turns a spit. Then he is part of the machine he moves; the man is lost. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ignorance is nothing to be ashamed of - until you find out you've got it. Once you realize you're ignorant, if you don't do something about it, then you have the right to feel ashamed. — Daniel Pinkwater