Burgeons Define Quotes & Sayings

We had an erector set, and I was an avid fan of Popular Mechanics and Popular Science magazines. — James Van Allen

600 million years ago, the monopolizing grip of the algae was broken and an enormous proliferation of new lifeforms emerged, an event called the Cambrian explosion. Life had arisen almost immediately after the origin of the Earth, which suggests that life may be an inevitable chemical process on an Earth-like planet. — Carl Sagan

The national laws of the five regions of India prescribe no cangue, beatings or prison. Those who are guilty are fined in accordance with the degree of the offence committed. There is no capital punishment. — Hyecho

Beans, beans, they're good for your heart," I said cheerily, seizing the opening. "The more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel - so let's have beans for every meal! — Diana Gabaldon

If love wasn't conditional, we'd all be polygamists. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I see the experience of pictures as a kind of cycle, a kind of circular motion in which you're in the world, then you enter the picture and you're in a different world (it's not the same as the one you live in, but recognizable as one you might live in). And then you're returned to your world with an enlarged sense of its possibilities. — Frank Gohlke

If she picked Roland over you, that makes her the greatest fool who ever lived. — Sarah J. Maas

They [German princes] made a pact with the devil and landed in hell. — Adolf Hitler

Life will succeed life, as we know it. — R.W. Erskine

Instead of hearing the message he was trying to impress upon me and the impressionable queer ears hanging on his every word, all I could think was, I can't believe he just told them all how old I am.
- Jason's reaction to Chad's speech — Ethan Day

A fistula is a passage between two things that ought never to be joined and is, generally speaking, a bad thing. — Diana Gabaldon

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want. — Sarah Addison Allen

Character is the only secure foundation of the state. — Calvin Coolidge

With communication technology in general, there's a kind of certain critical mass of people. Once you get to 15% of the world's entire population using one communication technology, that's a big deal. It's beyond the theoretical at this point. The people who think it's a fad have probably not been paying that much attention. — Ben Horowitz