Cantidades Quimicas Quotes & Sayings

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two. — David Almond

New York Times help-wanted ads, which were once arranged by gender to distinguish "women's work" from real careers. — Ariel Levy

Crocodiles, you will say, are stationary. Mr. Waterton tells me that the crocodile does not change, - that a cayman, in fact, or an alligator, is just as good for riding upon as he was in the time of the Pharaohs. That may be; but the reason is that the crocodile does not live fast - he is a slow coach. I believe it is generally understood among naturalists that the crocodile is a blockhead. It is my own impression that the Pharaohs were also blockheads. — Thomas De Quincey

In college football, fans wallow in a culture of failure. Unless you root for Miami, you sadly wait for disaster to strike your team in a manner not seen outside of Fenway Park. — Stephen Rodrick

I'm actually totally the prude of my family. — Sue Naegle

I'm always coming back with too much footage. Most filmmakers do, but I'm always surprised that it keeps happening to me. — David Twohy

I'm not just the sum of how I look although that seems to be a popular opinion, and it infuriates me. — Siobhan Davis

You see the Earth as a bright blue and white Christmas tree ornament in the black sky. It's so small and so fragile - you realize that on that small spot is everything that means everything to you; all of history and art and death and birth and love. — Rusty Schweickart

Creative people come often at a stark difference between the kind and the mean spirited. Be they an artist or not in life their personal ingenuity is often a marvel to behold. They create opportunities where none were just seconds prior in existence. Creative souls without flexibility are
an easy hallmark for a tyrant in behavior. The opposite is also true those creative types open to flexibility are usually more often than not easy going in demeanor. When such subcategories of personalities are highly intuitive they also
shift their behavior to match the presence of their peers. Very much like an empathic chameleon able to change its colors so as to fit in out of habit or necessity. — Ivan Alexander Pozo-Illas

We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart. — Rebecca Harding Davis

It is through their not being full of themselves that they can afford to seem worn and not appear new and complete. — Lao-Tzu

There's no greater proof of an impoverished mind than its inability to be witty except at other people's expense. — Fernando Pessoa

I think a fundamentalist is somebody who believes something unshakably and isn't going to change their mind. — Richard Dawkins

If you want to make better theory, you've got to use the best that's available and look through the lens of another discipline to see if you can uncover more anomalies. By looking at the phenomena of failure from the perspective of sales, marketing, finance, general management, and the equity markets, I was able to see things that Rebecca [Henderson] hadn't. — Clayton Christensen

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense. — Harold Brodkey