Brininess Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The clothes are different: pre-dog, I used to be very finicky and self-conscious about how I looked; now I schlep around in the worst clothing - big heavy boots, baggy old sweaters, a hooded down parka from L.L. Bean that makes me look like an astronaut. — Caroline Knapp

In fact, for a period stretching over seven hundred years, the international language of science was Arabic. For this was the language of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam, and thus the official language of the vast Islamic Empire that, by the early eighth century CE, stretched from India to Spain. — Jim Al-Khalili

There's no such things as survival of the fittest. Survival of the most adequate, maybe. It doesn't matter whether a solution's optimal. All that matters is whether it beats the alternative. — Peter Watts

I think of myself as a beginner. Sometimes that's the whole joy. If you could just do it, there'd be no point in doing it. — Wayne Thiebaud

I was moving among two groups ... who had almost ceased to communicate at all, who in intellectual, moral, and psychological climate had so little in common that ... one might have crossed the ocean. — C.P. Snow

The sun and moon shine on all without partiality. — Confucius

It's like she thinks my job is to please her, and that should be my dearest wish, and when I don't please her - I get shut out. — John Green

Strange how a tiny hand could make the weight of his new responsibilities feel like a boulder on his chest. — Margaret Mallory

Self-reliance is the best defence against the pressures of the moment. — Carl Von Clausewitz