Diriye Bile Quotes & Sayings

I don't have a grand master plan, but I try to be thoughtful when I can and also silly. It's part of the fun. — Josh Charles

The right thoughts of the clever man are a ladder which takes you higher places. By climbing these ladders, one day you yourself become such a ladder itself! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way. — Albert Goodwill Spalding

The present generation sees everything clearly, marvels at the errors and laughs at the follies of its forefathers, not seeing that there are streaks of heavenly light in that history, that every letter in it cries aloud to them, that on all sides a pointing finger is turned upon it, upon the present generation. But the present generation laughs and proudly, self-confidently, enters upon a series of fresh errors at which their descendants will laugh again in their turn. — Nikolai Gogol

To the extent that we even understand string theory, it may imply a massive number of possible different universes with different laws of physics in each universe, and there may be no way of distinguishing between them or saying why the laws of physics are the way they are. And if I can predict anything, then I haven't explained anything. — Lawrence M. Krauss

A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, — Susan Sontag

I don't trust American intelligence. You look at the torture report from the Senate: People inside the CIA are saying that it doesn't work, and we're getting the information not from torture, but simply from questioning people. — Robert Baer

So I say a name, even if self-bestowed, is better than a number. In the register of the potter's field I shall soon have both. What wealth! — Ambrose Bierce

There is no intellectual or emotional substitute for the authentic, the original, the unique masterpiece. — Paul Mellon

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The French Revolution was nothing but a precursor of another revolution, one that will be bigger, more solemn, and which will be the last. — Francois-Noel Babeuf

I had no more need of God than He had of me, and if there were one, I often said to myself, I would meet Him calmly and spit in His face. — Henry Miller

Every time I'm in editing, there's always a moment where you think, "Maybe this should be six or seven minutes shorter, but I'm losing character and story that I think is important." When I like things, I'm not in a rush for them to end. — Judd Apatow