Elderkin Pirnie Quotes & Sayings

Possibilitas tua mensura tua'(What is possible to you is what you will be measured by). — Richard Sibbes

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

I see nothing to fear in inner space. — Yeshe Tsogyal

Education has always been very important to me. — Freddie Stroma

Intelligence isn't just about how many levels of math courses you've taken, how fast you can solve an algorithm, or how many vocabulary words you know that are over 6 characters. It's about being able to approach a new problem, recognize its important components, and solve it - then take that knowledge gained and put it towards solving the next, more complex problem. It's about innovation and imagination, and about being able to put that to use to make the world a better place. This is the kind of intelligence that is valuable, and this is the type of intelligence we should be striving for and encouraging. — Andrea Kuszewsk

We can choose to see life as a series of trials and tribulations, or we can choose to see life as an accumulation of treasures. — Max De Pree

She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes. — Liane Moriarty

He hands the page to his wife and looks across the room to Colleen's picture, listening to her absence, breathing deeply the air she can't share. — Steven Herrick

If you knew how much information the campaigns had on you, you'd turn off your machines. And I mean that literally. — Joe Trippi

A joke is a joke. There's an expression - I don't know if you have it - that's 'adding insult to injury.' — Jon Stewart

I was vaguely aware that we'd been archenemies a few minutes before, and now he had me on my back on the sand. — Jennifer Echols

Whatever you are, be a good one.
-Curtis Sittenfeld (American Wife) — Curtis Sittenfeld

There's a theory that if we don't have the right words in our vocabularies, we can't even see the things that are right in front of our faces. If we can't describe our reality accurately, we can't see it. Not the other way around. — Paolo Bacigalupi