Chrysalids Sealand Lady Quotes & Sayings

Sooner or later, the market will do what it has to do to prove the majority wrong. — Peter Cundill

The only scholarship that has any merit, I suppose, is what is useful to other people as well as oneself. The most meritorious of all is what is useful to other scholars, sometimes for generations. — Peter Levi

Marketing guru Jay Levinson figures you have to run an ad twenty-seven times against one individual before it has its desired impact. Why? Because only one out of nine ads is seen, and you've got to see it at least three times before it sinks in. — Seth Godin

My grandmother's idea of a mixed marriage is a Methodist who marries a Baptist. Although she'd never admit it, in her heart, I know she believes Jesus was Methodist. — L. King Perez

By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people. — Paul R. Ehrlich

Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege. — Deborah Sampson

I really wanted to be on Six Feet Under as a corpse. That would be hysterical. — Michael Stipe

Shirley's gonna be pissed," Gazarra said. "She hates when I get shot." To my recollection, the only other time Gazarra was shot was when he was playing quick draw in the police station elevator and his gun accidentally discharged. The bullet ricocheted off the elevator wall and lodged in Gazarra's right buttock. — Janet Evanovich

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared. — Erica Jong

Whenever anybody does well spiritually, I usually ignore them. It's the greatest compliment I can pay them. — Frederick Lenz

The river runs every shade of blue that has ever been known to humankind: ink and turquoise and lapis, indigo, teal, cerulean, and ultramarine. — Alice Hoffman

A warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change. — Carlos Castaneda

Superconductivity helped broaden my professional phase space. When I started my work, it was already known that magnetic fields could quench superconductivity. I found that the transition was not continuous, that superconductivity was initially enhanced in the presence of magnetic fields, then it would suddenly fall off. — Mildred S. Dresselhaus

Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made. — Samuel Beckett