Daldinia Quotes & Sayings

My hand moves because certain forces
electric, magnetic, or whatever 'nerve-force' may prove to be
are impressed on it by my brain. This nerve-force, stored in the brain, would probably be traceable, if Science were complete, to chemical forces supplied to the brain by the blood, and ultimately derived from the food I eat and the air I breathe. — Lewis Carroll

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. — Antonio Tabucchi

[The doctrine of air] I was led into in consequence of inhabiting a house adjoining to a public brewery, where I at first amused myself with making experiments on the fixed air [carbon dioxide] which I found ready made in the process of fermentation . When I removed from that house I was under the necessity of making the fixed air for myself; and one experiment leading to another, as I have distinctly and faithfully noted in my various publications on the subject, I by degrees contrived a convenient apparatus for the purpose, but of the cheapest kind. — Joseph Priestley

Stop trying to be someone you're not. Be what you're good at, be you. — Jeffree Star

It is not a matter of time so much as a matter of heart; if you have the heart to pray, you will find the time. — Charles Spurgeon

I am willing to amuse you, if I can, sir - quite willing; but I cannot introduce a topic, because how do I know what will interest you? Ask me questions, and I will do my best to answer them. — Charlotte Bronte

I love you enough to tell you the truth whether you want to hear it or not, but what you do afterward is your choice alone. — Ashley Ormon

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts. — Peter Abelard

Who could ever reckon up the damage done to love and friendship and all hopes of happiness by a surfeit or depletion of this or that neurotransmitter? And who will ever find a morality, an ethics down among the enzymes and amino acids when the general taste is for looking in the other direction? — Ian McEwan

The truthful man is usually a liar. — Alfred Nobel

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood — John Mayer

I think Africa will have a crisper impact on Europe, as it has traditionally, and then that will filter into the American cultural psyche, in the way that India has. — Chiwetel Ejiofor

I think one of the things I was shocked about was how interested the world is in 'American Idol' and how people, writers, they write about 'Idol' all the time, and I guess I didn't expect that. — Nicki Minaj

I'm not God's gift to rockabilly. There's great players out there, and some of them deserve a lot more than they've gotten. — Brian Setzer