Dicotyledons Quotes & Sayings

I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go. — Henry Rollins

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. — Robert McNamara

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

Only a stupid does something for nothing. — M.F. Moonzajer

For me, a career highlight was being on 'Battlestar Galactica.' Roles like that don't come along very often. — Michael Trucco

war historian Paul Fussell suggests that in World War II heavy drinking was the answer to fear, boredom and the terrible damage to the sense of identity experienced by so many combatants. Drunkenness, he writes, did for the men of this war what drugs did for the next generation in Vietnam. — Liz Byrski

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought
while his hand moved rapidly
what a power there was in words; later, for those who heard them, but first for the one who found them; a healing power, a solution, like the breaking of a barrier. He thought, perhaps the basic secret the scientists have not discovered, the first fount of life, is that which happens when a thought takes shape in words. — Ayn Rand

Digger motioned to Zoltan. "What about that one? He has funny eyes. Could be an alien."
"He's Zoltan, a vampire like me," Phineas explained.
"Are you sure? Zoltan sounds like an alien planet. — Kerrelyn Sparks

Sport is quite a simple thing. It is play, and in play, people of all ages find the chance to engage their most profound emotions-love, fear, excitement, disappointment, anger and joy. — Timothy Shriver

The strongest proof that in the name of "science" we pursue unworthy and sometimes even harmful things is the existence of a science of punishment, which in itself is one of the most ignorant and offensive types of action known to man, a vestige of the lowest level of human development, lower than that of a child or a madman. — Leo Tolstoy

King Nicholas had explained the lense box to — Eoin Colfer

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again. — Olive Schreiner

In an industry afflicted by sequelitis, it has taken John Boorman almost three decades to make the sequel to his much-cherished Hope and Glory, but Queen and Country turns out to be well worth the wait. — Joe Morgenstern

Inside that darkness, i saw rain falling on the sea. Rain softly falling on a vast sea, with no one there to see it. The rain strikes the surface of the sea, yet even the fish don't know it is raining. — Haruki Murakami

When I was a student, I studied philosophy and religion. I talked about being patient. Some people say I was too hopeful, too optimistic, but you have to be optimistic just in keeping with the philosophy of non-violence. — John Lewis