Cierta Ciencia Quotes & Sayings

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid. — Roz Savage

The Victrola, the Movies, a lecture: such are the three American alternatives to Silence, Scandal and Squabble.
Or else, get drunk. America knows no other devices to enable its inhabitants to endure either their own company or that of their fellow-creatures. — Aleister Crowley

I shall sit alone in a darkened room, sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything but a little grey old head, and in that little grey old head a peculiar vision of hideous blue and gold dangling things flashing in the light, and the smell of sweat, cat food and death. — Douglas Adams

The book deals with the problems of philosophy and shows, as I believe, that the method of formulating these problems rests on the misunderstanding of the logic of our language. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

How much should the women sacrifice for satisfying the egos of men? The question grew in her heart and became an unbearable burden. It suffocated her. We are toys in the hands of men; they play with us to soothe their tired bodies and minds. — Tomichan Matheikal

Not he who scorns the Saviour's yoke Should wear his cross upon the heart. — Friedrich Schiller

For a while, I thought I was going mad. At last, I became reconciled to my despair.
The medications helped, too, I thought, sir. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Harvey was not content merely to gather knowledge; he digested and arranged it under the guidance of the faculties which compare and reason ... Harvey appears to have possessed, in a remarkable degree, the power of persuading and conciliating those with whom he came in contact. In the whole course of his long life we hear nothing either of personal enemies or personal enmities ... one of the great men whom God, in virtue of his eternal laws, bids to appear on earth from time to time to enlighten, and to ennoble mankind. — William Harvey