Concluir Quotes & Sayings

Many of the familiar little things that we use every day have typically evolved over a period of time to a state of familiarity. They balance form and function, elegance and economy, success and failure in ways that are not only acceptable, but also admirable. — Henry Petroski

We see things not as they are, but as we are ourselves. — H.M. Tomlinson

I had read it some time ago but was so completely immersed that I retained nothing. This has been an intermittent, lifelong enigma. Through early adolescence I sat and read for hours in a small grove of weed trees near the railroad track in Germantown. Like Gumby I would enter a book wholeheartedly and sometimes venture so deeply it was as if I were living within it. I finished many books in such a manner there, closing the covers ecstatically yet having no memory of the content by the time I returned home. This disturbed me but I kept this strange affliction to myself. I look at the covers of such books and their contents remain a mystery that I cannot bring myself to solve. Certain books I loved and lived within yet cannot remember. — Patti Smith

Earth rendered thereby firm and sure; — Lao-Tzu

Even now; with a thousand little voyages notched in my belt. I still feel a memorial chill on casting off. — E.B. White

All porn stars on Animal Farm are equal but some porn scenes are more unequal than others. — Brian Spellman

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and they're there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. — Harry Connick Jr.

It's really hard when a celebrity dies out of nowhere, 'cause it's very shocking ... surreal. — Ashley Tisdale

We're not making a world without greed, Jacob. We're making a world where greed is a perversion. Where grabbing everything for yourself instead of sharing is like smearing yourself with shit: gross. Wrong.
Our winning doesn't mean you don't get to be greedy. It means people will be ashamed for you, will pity you and want to distance themselves from you. You can be as greedy as you want, but no one will admire you for it. — Cory Doctorow

The exegetical foundations would appear to be weak, and one shouldn't build huge theological edifices, no matter how splendid or consistent, on weak foundations. — Ben Witherington III

Even though there are no ways of knowing for sure, there are ways of knowing for pretty sure. — Lemony Snicket