Dirty Slag Quotes & Sayings

I may believe in God, but I'm at war with Him. I'm a scientist, I try to answer questions, one at a time, so there's a little less room for Him as the answer. I plant my flag, and inch by inch, I take away His kingdom. It's odd, but none of this has ever occurred to me before. I never even saw a real contradiction between science and religion. I see it now, I see it clear as day. — Sylvain Neuvel

Many minutes pass. I learn much from him, and he from me. It's exhilarating, to be suddenly awash in ideas whose implications would take me days to consider fully. But we're also gathering strategic information: I infer the extent of his unspoken knowledge, compare it with my own, and simulate his corresponding inferences. For there is always the awareness that this must come to an end; the formulation of our exchanges renders ideological differences luminously clear. Reynolds hasn't witnessed the beauty that I have; he's stood before lovely insights, oblivious to them. The sole gestalt that inspires him is the one I ignored: that of the planetary society, of the biosphere. I am a lover of beauty, he of humanity. Each feels that the other has ignored great opportunities. He — Ted Chiang

My gravestone will say, 'Here Lies Damon Lindelof - Or Does He?' — Damon Lindelof

Our lonely, gray mothers became visitors to a world in which they had no share. — Jens Christian Grondahl

He asked for a specific. I gave him a specific. I'm sorry it wasn't puppies. — Maggie Stiefvater

The more we want certain situations, the more we find ourself stuck in situations we do not want. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. — James C. Collins

Cabby was saying
"someday" ... someday Tony would love him. He hoped it might
be true. Perhaps Cabby knew things that he didn't — Wm. Paul Young

When you talk about the world's greatest entertainer you have to say Al Jolson because there was no one like him. Only Judy Garland and perhaps Frank Sinatra got anywhere near him! — Jack Benny

Rest not Life is sweeping by go and dare before you die. Something mighty and sublime, leave behind to conquer time. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man who can't stay a bit shouldn't approach in the first place. Good advice, I think, and not just for priests. — Stephen King

I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there. — Fanny Burney