Cassini Huygens Quotes & Sayings

We write by the light of every book we've read. — Richard Peck

Theater is like boxing - having the audience ringside. It's instant gratification. Or horrification. — Sylvester Stallone

As a musician, basically the masses never thought I was a musician. — Kip Winger

If what we learn is no more than what we expect to learn, then we have learned nothing at all. — John H. Lienhard

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think
which is fundamentally a moral problem
must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process. — Vera Brittain

Nothing stays
not even change,
That can grow tired
of it's own name;
The very thought
too much for it.
Somewhere in air
a stillness is,
So far, so thin-
But let it alone.
Whoever we are
it is not for us — Mark Van Doren

We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped ... We suffer, therefore we think. — Alain De Botton

"World War III, was the Cold War, and the U.S. won it". — Norman Podhoretz

He lit his pipe again, smiling to himself quietly, with that painful smile of his, as though he were enjoying a joke that hurt him. — W. Somerset Maugham

Modest women choose a man by the mind, not the eye. — Publilius Syrus

Peculiar excitement at the mysterious array. She ran her eyes — W. Somerset Maugham