Crottins Quotes & Sayings

If experience teaches anything, it is that what the community undertakes to do is usually done badly. This is due in part to the temptation to corruption that such enterprises involve, but even more, perhaps, to the lack of personal interest on the part of those engaged in them. — Suzanne La Follette

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future. — Warren Buffett

You need dresses!" "No, you need me to need dresses! — Rebecca Donovan

The worst mistake you can make with children is to talk to them in a condescending, patronising way and think that you can teach them something. You have to understand that it is you who will be learning from them. You have to get into their world and see things from their perspective. — Magnus Scheving

A man of calm is like a shady tree.
People who need shelter come to it. — Toba Beta

Quantum mechanics challenges this view by revealing, at least in certain circumstances, a capacity to transcend space; long-range quantum connections can bypass spatial separation. Two objects can be far apart in space, but as far as quantum mechanics is concerned, it's as if they're a single entity. — Brian Greene

You couldn't fight the injustice of fate; you could only suffer it and hope that one day it might be different. — Jodi Picoult

No coach is more important than the Team — Bo Schembechler

So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all. — Charles Bukowski

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake. — Gale Anne Hurd

Our brains contain one hundred billion nerve cells (neurons). Each neuron makes links with ten thousand other neurons to form an incredible three dimensional grid. This grid therefore contains a thousand trillion connections - that's 1,000,000,000,000,000 (a quadrillion). It's hard to imagine this, so let's visualise each connection as a disc that's 1mm thick. Stack up the quadrillion discs on top of each other and they will reach the sun (which is ninety-three million miles from the earth) and back, three times over. — Nessa Carey

Just like conjuring up a spell, or harnessing wolf instincts, wielding demonic power came as naturally to me as committing misdemeanors. — Kelly Oram

If, before undertaking some action, you must obtain the permission of society-you are not free, whether such permission is granted to you or not. Only a slave acts on permission. A permission is not a right. — Ayn Rand

It seemed as natural as two blades of grass brushing each other in the wind. — Laura Whitcomb