Ekimetrics Quotes & Sayings

Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary. — Alfred M. Gray

I think people love it when anybody acts bad; it's not particular to me. — Kevin Spacey

God hath made it a debt which one saint owes to another to carry their names to a throne of grace. — William Gurnall

How might letters be most efficiently copied so that the blind might read them with their fingers? — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Of all the men, and ashamedly, that included Bill, David was the one who I felt in my core, as though I only existed as an extension of him. I wanted to fall just so he could catch me. — Jessica Hawkins

You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving, my skin and fingernails, everything, it's like I'm full of electricity and I'm glowing in the dark - I'm on fire almost - I'm burning away into nothing - but it doesn't matter because I know exactly who I am. — Tim O'Brien

Which was increased by the two guardsmen, who took sides with one of the loungers, and by the scissors-grinder, who was equally hot upon the other side. A blow was struck, and in an instant the lady, who had stepped from her carriage, was the centre of a little knot of flushed and struggling men, who struck savagely at each other with their fists and sticks. Holmes dashed into the crowd to protect the lady; but, just as he reached her, he gave a cry and dropped to the ground, with the blood running freely down his face. At his fall the guardsmen took to their heels in one direction and the loungers in the other, while a number of better dressed — Arthur Conan Doyle

Better once than never, for never too late. — William Shakespeare

Today our unsophisticated cameras record in their own way our hastily assembled and painted world. — Vladimir Nabokov

I believe in any religion that puts treating people with respect and dignity above ritual and dogma. — Charles F. Glassman

In economic life and history more generally, just about everything of consequence comes from black swans; ordinary events have paltry effects in the long term. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Much of the speech we do is largely meaningless and is just meant to communicate and validate small emotional contracts. — Jesse Ball

And I love Evander Holyfield to death! — Ray Lewis

One of the major changes in attitude that occurred in the world of art as we moved from the nineteenth into the twentieth century was that the twentieth century artist became more involved with personal expression than with celebrating exclusively the values of the society or the church. Along with this change came a broader acceptance of the belief that the artist can invent a reality that is more meaningful than the one that is literally given to the eye. I subscribe enthusiastically to this. — Jerry Uelsmann

The Christian mythologists tell us that Christ died for the sins of the world, and that he came on Purpose to die. Would it not then have been the same if he had died of a fever or of the small pox, of old age, or of anything else? — Thomas Paine