Dottery Define Quotes & Sayings

It is commonly believed that anyone who tabulates numbers is a statistician. This is like believing that anyone who owns a scalpel is a surgeon. — Robert Hooke

Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose. — Stanley Elkin

I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible. — Carey Mulligan

Some people pretend they never were in love and never wrote poetry; two weaknesses which they dare not own
one of the heart, the other of the mind. — Jean De La Bruyere

Nor am I ashamed, as some are, to confess my ignorance of those matters with which I am unacquainted. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do. — Oprah Winfrey

I've always felt that my relationship to the United States is analogous to a marriage. I love this country. I hate it. I get angry at it. I feel close to it. I'm charmed by it. I'm repelled by it. And it's a marriage that's gone on for let's say at least 50 years of my writing life, and in the course of that, what's happened? It's gotten worse. It's not what it used to be. — Norman Mailer

22. As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion. — Anonymous

They justify themselves with their inability; and the design and end of the law, as a school-master to fit them for Christ, is defeated. — Jonathan Edwards

I'm really quiet at home. I don't speak that much. However, when I'm in public, I make sure to speak to everyone. — Justin Hires

He was one of those persons whom one loves not because of some lustrous streak of talent (this retired businessman possessed none), but because every moment spent with them fits exactly the gauge of one's life. There are friendships like circuses, waterfalls, libraries; there are others comparable to old dressing gowns. You found nothing especially attractive about Maximov's mind if you took it apart: his ideas were conservative, his tastes undistinguished: but somehow or other these dull components formed a wonderfully comfortable and harmonious whole. — Vladimir Nabokov

Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

To speak only of food inspections: the United States currently imports 80% of its seafood, 32% of its fruits and nuts, 13% of its vegetables, and 10% of its meats. In 2007, these foods arrived in 25,000 shipments a day from about 100 countries. The FDA was able to inspect about 1% of these shipments, down from 8% in 1992. In contrast, the USDA is able to inspect 16% of the foods under its purview. By one assessment, the FDA has become so short-staffed that it would take the agency 1,900 years to inspect every foreign plant that exports food to the United States. — Marion Nestle