Consultations Des Quotes & Sayings

Most bacteriologists were trained as medical men - Burnet himself had been, before going into bacteriological research - and "their interest in general biological problems was very limited." They cared about curing and preventing diseases, which was well and good; less so about pondering infection as a biological phenomenon, a relationship between creatures, equal in fundamental importance to such other relationships as predation, competition, and decomposition. — David Quammen

In the denial of disorder there is order. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled. — J.K. Rowling

Undecidability is a useful category even in dealing with restaurant menus. — Mason Cooley

I'm a very old man.
I've had lots of problems.
Most of them never happened..! — Mark Twain

You couldn't just shout comfort into the universe and hope it caught on and gave it back. — Claire Contreras

There's a tired notion that the photojournalist has to be disengaged to be able to shoot what he shoots, and that's such a cliched idea of what the experience is. Of course they're engaged, and they're not distanced. — Michael Mann

The only true experience is of the immediate present — Sylvia Clare

I am pride! Let the meek have their inheritance - I'd rather have eternity in shadows than divine bliss at the price you ask. — Mark Lawrence

I still want to write Clint Eastwood a letter saying, 'I'm sorry, I'm sorry for all us wimp actors. You're the truth.' I guarantee he's not the person you want to fight, even now! You look at him, and you don't want to mess with him. He would still take you down. — Channing Tatum

A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him. — Oliver Cromwell

No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin - because we were born to female creatures. Only by obeying the rules of the patriarchy can we be reborn through men. No wonder priests and ministers in skirts sprinkle imitation birth fluid over our heads, give us new names, and promise rebirth into everlasting life. — Gloria Steinem

If you don't have anything to say, your photographs aren't going to say much. — Gordon Parks