Butirka Quotes & Sayings

The moment we begin to give a nation the unity and simplicity of an animal, we begin to think wildly. Because every man is a biped, fifty men are not a centipede. — G.K. Chesterton

Hubble was lucky in a way. The Hubble Space Telescope could easily have been given another name had certain events turned out differently: if someone had not prematurely died (Keeler), if someone else had not taken a promotion (Curtis), or if another (Shapley) was not mulishly wedded to a flawed vision of the cosmos. The discovery of the modern universe is a story filled with trials, errors, serendipitous breaks, battles of wills, missed opportunities, herculean measurements, and brilliant insights. In other words, it is science writ large. — Marcia Bartusiak

Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage. — Octavia Butler

I like bossy girls. I don't like girls who just do whatever they think you want them to do, and follow you around trying to please you all the time. — Jarvis Cocker

If you set the attractiveness bar really low, people have to compliment you on your looks when they meet you in person. I'm pretty much a genius. I'm actually applying to work at the Genius Bar based on this trick. — Megan Amram

Losers blame their parents; Failures blame their kids. — Steve Toltz

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration. — John Keats

Network Gives You Reach ... Community Gives You Power! — Ted Rubin

I never thought of myself as capable of stirring up - generating - the actual drumroll for a record, you know, all the press. — Ariel Pink

I love heels, I'm telling you. When I walk in flats, I get knee pain. — Sofia Vergara

Everybody needs some real rock in their lives ... whether it's bands like ourselves, Aerosmith or Stones ... or new bands like Five Finger Death Punch, Avenged Sevenfold ... it's out there. — Nikki Sixx

Be thankful to those who refuse to help you, for they force you to summon upon your warrior within. — Miya Yamanouchi