Dopiness Quotes & Sayings

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow. — Elfriede Jelinek

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people ... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten. — Ruth St. Denis

Redundant comments are just places to collect lies and misinformation. — Robert C. Martin

It thrilled through her like her nerves were channeling starlight. He was safe. — Laini Taylor

She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them. — Amy Waldman

Let the wealthier countries and corporations of the world fund an Emergency Organization. — Steven Van Zandt

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary. — Josip Broz Tito

The last peculiarity of consciousness to which attention is to be drawn in this first rough description of its stream is that it is always interested more in one part of its object than in another, and welcomes and rejects, or chooses, all the while it thinks. — William James

There was, I think, a feeling that the best science was that done in the simplest way. In experimental work, as in mathematics, there was 'style' and a result obtained with simple equipment was more elegant than one obtained with complicated apparatus, just as a mathematical proof derived neatly was better than one involving laborious calculations. Rutherford's first disintegration experiment, and Chadwick's discovery of the neutron had a 'style' that is different from that of experiments made with giant accelerators. — John Ashworth Ratcliffe

Know your stuff. Have an angle. Know how to grow business, how to develop products, have patents and an undeveloped market that could be huge. — Mark Cuban

In the end maybe the brave ones are also the foolish ones. Maybe only fools are ever truly brave. — Mikaela Everett

Like all schools, we are always interested in learning, in research, in pushing the limits of knowledge. But we must balance that with our duty to protect the world, even from ourselves. — Holly Black

I had an abortion when I was 16. Because that's what I should have done. Otherwise I would now have a 20-year-old kid. Anyway, those are things that people shouldn't be dishonest about it. — Chelsea Handler

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. — Milton Friedman

The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things ... — Richard P. Feynman