Draelik Quotes & Sayings

The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks. — Nolan Bushnell

Reconstructing the past is rather like translating poetry. It can be done, but never exactly. — Norman Davies

Given enough time humans will screw up Wikipedia just as they have screwed up everything else, but so far it's not too bad. — Jimmy Wales

I chose to follow you," he said, and his voice was deep and rich. "And I'll find you again. — Dan Wells

I was quite excited, but I was sure I wouldn't win the race. I am a realist. — Jean Alesi

The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them. — Charles Spurgeon

Why is almost every robust healthy boy with a robust healthy soul in him, at some time or other crazy to go to sea? Why upon your first voyage as a passenger, did you yourself feel such a mystical vibration, when first told that you and your ship were now out of sight of land? Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother of Jove? Surely all this is not without meaning. — Herman Melville

The oldest, easiest to swallow idea was that the earth was man's personal property, a combination of garden, zoo, bank vault, and energy source, placed at our disposal to be consumed, ornamented, or pulled apart as we wished. — Lewis Thomas

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings. — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon

We do not ask for wealth because he that has health and children will also have wealth. We do not pray to have money but to have more kinsmen. We are better than animals because we have kinsmen. An animal rubs its itching flank against a tree, a man asks his kinsman to scratch him. — Chinua Achebe

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes. — Oscar Wilde

The more one listens to ordinary conversations the more apparent it becomes that the reasoning faculties of the brain take little part in the direction of the vocal organs. — Edgar Rice Burroughs