Crystallographer Viswamitra Quotes & Sayings

The PATRIOT Act allows Federal agents to look at public and university library patron circulation records, books checked out, magazines consulted, all subject to government scrutiny. There used to be a time in this country when we were worried whether our young people knew how to read. Now some in our government are more worried that government agents be able to find out what people are reading. — Dennis Kucinich

Half-baked effort is almost as good as no effort put in at all. Always seek to do your best. Good things always have a way of finding those who put forth their best even when their situation seems bleak. — Chris Erickson

Her hands twisted restlessly together like a pair of pink and hairless animals at play. — Stephen King

Men don't traipse. We... Swagger — Jodi Picoult

A quiet prayer made out of faith is better
than a loud one uttered for show. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I shall never be ashamed to quote a bad author if what he says is good. — Seneca The Younger

You can't prove a negative. I can't prove there are no such thing as vampires any more than you can prove you're not a lesbian. — Val McDermid

His face was badly bruised and swollen and altogether painful looking, but it really brought out his eyes. — Nicole Castle

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown. — Langston Hughes

I remind you again we had those elections [in Afghanistan and Iraq] because we had boots on the ground and we had people that could help people, and we had people on the ground that could get into somebody's face when they had to, and do whatever was required. — Peter Schoomaker

You all smoke to enjoy it, I smoke to die. — John Green

Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool! — J.R.R. Tolkien

It is cognition that is the fantasy ... Everything I tell you now is mere words. Arrange them and rearrange them as I might, I will never be able to explain to you the form of Will ... My explanation would only show the correlation between myself and that Will by means of a correlation on the verbal level. The negation of cognition thus correlates to the negation of language. For when those two pillars of Western humanism, individual cognition and evolutionary continuity, lose their meaning, language loses meaning. Existence ceases for the individuum as we know it, and all becomes chaos. You cease to be a unique entity unto yourself, but exist simply as chaos. And not just the chaos that is you; your chaos is also my chaos. To wit, existence is communication, and communication, existence. — Haruki Murakami

Likewise, every disturbance, whether resolved or not, is making space for an inner engagement. As a shovel digs up and displaces earth, in a way that must seem violent to the earth, an interior space is revealed for the digging. In just this way, when experience opens us, it often feels violent and the urge, quite naturally, is to refill that opening, to make it the way it was. But every experience excavates a depth, which reveals its wisdom once opened to air. — Mark Nepo