Denlinger Fisher Quotes & Sayings

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections. — Johan Huizinga

I would have given my right arm to have been a pianist. — Bobby Robson

When a king asked Euclid, the mathematician, whether he could not explain his art to him in a more compendious manner? he was answered, that there was no royal way to geometry. — Samuel Johnson

Pretentious and over-active semicolons have reached epidemic proportions in the world of academe, where they are used to gloss over imprecise thought. — Lynne Truss

And oh, how she pitched herself into things. She would draw pictures all day long for weeks on end, then throw out the pencils and never draw another thing. Then it was embroidery with her, she had to learn it, and she'd make the most beautiful thing, fussing at herself for the least little mistake, then throw down the needles and be done with that forevermore. I never saw a child so changeable. It was as though she was looking for something to which she could give herself, and she never found it. Least ways not while she was a little girl. — Anne Rice