Contemplatable Quotes & Sayings

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
... I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed. — Bill Watterson

Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love. — Simone Elkeles

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. — Fran Drescher

Peace is not the norm; peace is rare, and where we do manage to institutionalize it in a human society, it's usually because we've been intelligently pessimistic about human proclivities, and found a way to work with the grain of them in a system of intense mutual suspicion like the U.S. Constitution, a document which assumes that absolutely everybody will be corrupt and power-hungry given half a chance. — Francis Spufford

My room is now my headquarters. Nobody's allowed in without the password and I haven't even told anybody what the password is (it's pigeon, after my pigeon. Nobody else can find out if you only think it). — Stephen Kelman

I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. — Stuart Pearce

The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious. — Francine Prose

Christian holy duty is to know the Lord Jesus Christ. — Lailah Gifty Akita

One thing bothered me as a student. In the 1960s, human behavior was totally off limits for the biologist. There was animal behavior, then there was a long time nothing, after which came human behavior as a totally separate category best left to a different group of scientists. — Frans De Waal

Art is art, nature is nature, you cannot improve upon it ... Pictures should be inspired by nature, but made in the soul of the artist. It is the soul of the individual that counts. — Emily Carr

And before long there will be no more milk in bottles delivered to the doorstep or sleepy rural pubs, and the countryside will be mostly shopping centers and theme parks. Forgive me. I don't mean to get upset. But you are taking my world away from me, piece by little piece, and sometimes it just pisses me off. Sorry. — Bill Bryson

Cultures are mental parasites that emerge accidentally, and thereafter take advantage of all people infected by them. — Yuval Noah Harari

The best recreation is to do good. — William Penn

Knowledge is power; and power is best shared among friends. — Otis Chandler