Christmas Celebrations With Friends Quotes & Sayings

Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Screw the rules. Make up your own. — Nina DiSesa

Art is prayer - not the vulgarized notations handed down to us in the scriptures, but a fresh vital discovery of one's own special presence in the world. — Joseph C Zinker

As time passes, the system becomes less and less well-ordered. Sooner or later the fixing cease to gain any ground. Each forward step is matched by a backward one. Although in principle usable forever, the system has worn out as a base for progress ... A brand-new, from-the-ground-up redesign is necessary. — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

It is the fear of the past; a fear not merely of the evil in the past, but of the good in the past also. The brain breaks down under the unbearable virtue of mankind. There have been so many flaming faiths that we cannot hold; so many harsh heroisms that we cannot imitate; so many great efforts of monumental building or of military glory which seems to us at once sublime and pathetic. The future is a refuge from the fierce competition of our forefathers. — G.K. Chesterton

I'm not an extravagant guy ... I don't like going over the top on anything. I have what I need and I try to keep it that way. — Jose Bautista

Using the word chic while insulting someone doesn't make it okay. — Luella Christie

Philanthropy is the principal social institution that provides instruction in voluntary service. — Robert L. Payton

All a rainbow is is light that walks behind a raindrop and its colors fall out. — Augusten Burroughs

We need rest from the inexhaustible, from the mind. There is sleep-and meditation-and death. — Marty Rubin

I think it certainly is the responsibility of the rich to support and regenerate society. — Jamie Johnson

My biggest Buff Orpinton rooster is on the small corral fence letting the world know he is in charge, all puffed up and sassy. There is nothing more silly than a rooster taking over the world, but every day he things he can. I wonder if we are just a little part of the world, like that rooster, and that the real things go on around us while we strut in our own yards trying to take charge of things. — Nancy E. Turner

It's all about that cosy, homey feeling, the one you leave behind when you travel across the world. — Danielle Esplin

I like the idea of her bottles. Memories that are nothing but a strange shape floating inside of you, memories that are nothing but empty bottles. And the good stuff, glassed in so it can't float away. — Cath Crowley