Drenthe College Quotes & Sayings

There is also a keen pleasure (and after all, what else should the pursuit of science produce?) in meeting the riddle of the initial blossoming of man's mind by postulating a voluptuous pause in the growth of the rest of nature, a lolling and loafing which allowed first of all the formation of Homo poeticus
without which sapiens could not have been evolved. "Struggle for life" indeed! The curse of battle and toil leads man back to the boar, to the grunting beast's crazy obsession with the search for food. You and I have frequently remarked upon that maniacal glint in a housewife's scheming eye as it roves over food in a grocery or about the morgue of a butcher's shop. Toilers of the world, disband! Old books are wrong. The world was made on a Sunday. — Vladimir Nabokov

Dream is a window to the other realm — Okorie Deborah

The real bummer of fame is that at some point you're bound to get demoted. — Paulina Porizkova

The moment a man talks to his fellows he begins to lie. — Hilaire Belloc

[The ceremonial key to the city of Padua] is engraved with a quote from Galileo that is also on display at the physics department of the university...'I deem it of more value to find out a truth about however light a matter than to engage in long disputes about the greatest questions without achieving any truth. — Lisa Randall

Often you cannot wait for inspiration - it needs to be sought out. — Dean F. Wilson

By 2010, we as a species were creating more data per day than we did from the beginning of time until 2003. By 2015, 76 exabytes of data will travel across the Internet every year. — Bruce Schneier

The only way to prove his willingness to wait would be to wait. — Stephen L. Carter

Along with food, Roosevelt considered the finer points of bullets, colored glasses, Zeiss lenses, iron pans, enameled tableware, cameras, and "flashlights."32 When considering — Michael R. Canfield

I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one. — Mark Twain

John Floridis was very inspiring. He plays so well. — Shawn Colvin

I thought soccer was my future, but I got too big. — Peja Stojakovic