Carborundorum Translation Quotes & Sayings

Art is not so much talent as character ... it's what you are, the qualities of the person. — John Olsen

There are two kinds of blood, the blood that flows in the veins and the blood that flows out of them.
— Julian Tuwim

Oppenheimer's agony tore him open from top to bottom. More important than any political dispute his biographers may hope to re-animate or even to settle is a sense of that agony: what it means to be a man desiring scientific and political and moral greatness and living out the crucial ideas and struggles of our time, which pierce like knives, and rend the flesh and the spirit, and allow not a moment's relief. — Algis Valiunas

I will wade out
till my thighs are steeped in burning flowers
I will take the sun in my mouth
and leap into the ripe air
Alive
with closed eyes
to dash against darkness
in the sleeping curves of my body — E. E. Cummings

What I love about Beyonce is she's not a slave to a genre of music. — Tessanne Chin

Be excellent and party on dudes. — Abraham Lincoln

The greatest gift you can give your children is to believe in them. — Jim Valvano

The beauty of agile comes in with its incremental nature and use of empiricism to focus on three "I"s - Interaction, Iteration, and Improvement. — Pearl Zhu

The interesting part of the process is developing the character, you know, why did he become that? Why is the guy a murderer, or why is this guy a pervert, or whatever he is. So that's the fun part for me to delve into the abyss. — Brion James

I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wanted. — Meghan Trainor

Am I happy? If you asked me this, I'd have to say, 'Yeah, I guess.' Because dreams are, after all, just that: dreams. — Haruki Murakami

I'm a Muun of my word — James Luceno

Every once in awhile you find a novel so magical that there is no escaping its spell. The Night Circus is one of these rarities - engrossing, beautifully written and utterly enchanting. If you choose to read just one novel this year, this is it — Danielle Trussoni

I'm like my mother, she thought, I search my joy for signs of sorrow ahead. — Soheir Khashoggi

I have a very big family, and that is my number one thing, and we go away for a month to see my cousins in Italy every year, but I need to work. — Richard Rogers