Cowdashboard Quotes & Sayings

When Karim and his group heard about Saddam coming, they wanted to kill him, but fate had other ideas. — Saadi

I usually try to eat in my restaurants before I fly, as I'd rather sleep on the plane and just order a salad with cheese, maybe some ice cream. — Daniel Boulud

By focusing on the interior of a speaker's larynx and using infrared, he was able to convert the visible vibrations of the vocal cords into sound of fair quality, but that did not satisfy him. He worked for a while on vibrations picked up from panes of glass in windows and on framed pictures, and he experimented briefly with the diaphragms in speaker systems, intercoms and telephones. He kept on into October without stopping, and finally achieved a device that would give tinny but recognizable sound from any vibrating surface - a wall, a floor, even the speaker's own cheek or forehead. — Damon Knight

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them. — Christopher Lasch

CONFESSION NO. 18 Girls just want to have fun ... and live to tell about it the next day. — Ronda Thompson

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me. — Bernhard Langer

I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. — Neal Stephenson