Bukannya Quotes & Sayings

I write this in the moonlight, straining my ears to hear beyond the cold mechanical clock to the warm biological noises of the night, but my being is attuned only to one thing, the relentless rhythm of time.
If I could only smash the clock and stop time from advancing! Crush the infernal machine! Shatter its bland face and rip those cursed hands from their torturous axis of circumscription! I can almost feel the sturdy metal body crumpling beneath my hands, the glass fracturing, the case cracking open, my fingers digging into the guts, spilling springs and delicate gearing. But now, there is now use, now way of stopping time. — Ruth Ozeki

I'll give you a theory: Man's closest relative is not the chimpanzee, as the TV people believe, but is, in fact, the dog. — Garth Stein

In order to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear country you have to introduce a system of verification and inspection. — Shimon Peres

Each day is the scholar of yesterday. — Publilius Syrus

There is an irreducible scandal, something traumatic and unexpected, in the encounter with another subject, in the fact that the subject (a self-consciousness) encounters outside itself, in front of it, another living being there in the world, among things, which also claims to be a subject (a self-consciousness). As a subject, I am by definition alone, a singularity opposed to the entire world of things, a punctuality to which all the world appears, and all the phenomenological descriptions of my being always "together-with" others cannot ultimately cover up the scandal of there being another such singularity. In the guise of a living being in front of me which also claims to be a self-consciousness, infinity assumes a determinate form"- Hegel, — Slavoj Zizek

None more complicated than the human brain, Etienne would say, what may be the most complex object in existence; one wet kilogram within which spin universes. — Anthony Doerr

I am so inspired by new media. — Tamra Davis

When you're in love, you've found your soul mate, you think life is going one way, and suddenly it's completely apparent it's not. You have to rethink your whole purpose. — Scott Weiland

Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select novel adaptive pathways. — Ernst Mayr

... the sort of smiles used at weddings, turned on very carefully to half pressure to prevent them wearing out. — R. C. Sherriff

Those who have come here to hate should leave now; for in their hate, they only betray themselves. — Terry Goodkind

Mathematics is not a separate entity. It owes a great deal of its power and its beauty to other disciplines. — Mark Kac

There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent. — Malcolm X

That's it. Fate is a fickle whore. We're not going. Take your clothes off and get back in my bed. — Karen Marie Moning