Chiscio Quotes & Sayings

Do passing drills that come from your offense. — John Wooden

As an artist you have to have a certain amount of arrogance. — Kim Weston

It was a style not of perfection, but warmth. Even mistakes had a good feeling about them — Markus Zusak

In 1959 the University recognized our work by appointing me to a new Chair of Radio Astronomy. — Martin Ryle

A gaze to stop still, wonder at the shimmering depths.
A memory near the amygdala stored, an unforgettable tune,
Such an image did it impress, your sweet nostalgic scents. — Selina A. Mahmood

As you know, in most areas of science, there are long periods of beginning before we really make progress. — Eric Kandel

Perhaps these ancient observations perennially impress modern people because modern people have no idea how the sun, Moon, or stars move. We are too busy watching evening television to care what's going on in the sky. To us, a simple rock alignment based on cosmic patterns looks like an Einsteinian feat. But a truly mysterious civilization would be one that made no cultural or architectural reference to the sky at all. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I was going into shock. The pain wasn't getting any better, and I thought that I would probably black out before I found out how this was going to end. Just as well - I was never particularly good at finishing things. — Joe Schreiber

Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school. — Jory John

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever. — Sam Amidon

What is unique about Drogheda is the very large number of Protestants in the garrison and the fact that it's commanded, by and large, by Englishmen, who have come over from the English Civil War and are fighting in Ireland, and Cromwell is extraordinarily savage against these ... Drogheda, after all, was a Protestant — Ronald Hutton

Losing innocence. Remembering Heaven. That was the essence of Hell — John Jakes

Sooner or later it must come out, even if other men rediscover it. And then ... Governments and powers will struggle to get hither, they will fight against one another and against these moon people. It will only spread warfare and multiply the occasions of war. In a little while, in a very little while if I tell my secret, this planet to it's deepest galleries will be strewn with human dead. Other things are doubtful, but this is certain ... It is not as though man had any use for the moon. What good would the moon be to men? Even of their own planet what have they made but a battleground and theatre of infinite folly? Small as his world is, and short as his time, he has still in his little life down there far more than he can do. No! Science has toiled too long forging weapons for fools to use. It is time she held her hand. Let him find it out for himself again-in a thousand years' time. — H.G.Wells

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination. — Mary Harris Jones