Elizardo Ramirez Quotes & Sayings

My paintings are reflections of my own inner mysteries ... they all reflect my relationship to my steadiest of companions and muses - nature and animals ... — Katherine Dunn

Growing up, I had a ton of friends, and I had a great life, but people still made fun of me sometimes. — Molly Tarlov

I always run in the morning on an empty stomach, and I'll go through a bottle and a half of water. Then I have a protein drink or I eat egg whites. — Drew Carey

One of the most celebrated victims of this theocratic policy was Shelley (1792-1811) who was expelled from University College, Oxford, for writing a pamphlet entitled The Necessity of Atheism. — Christopher Hitchens

There are so many people who have lived and died before you. You will never have a new problem; you're not going to ever have a new problem. Somebody wrote the answer down in a book somewhere. — Will Smith

Empirical knowledge itself is of little benefit unless it awakens the inner perception of man as to his own situation, his potentialities, his risks, and his destiny — Fazlur Rahman

Millennia of servitude, Abhorsen. Chained by trickery, treachery ... captivenin a repulsive, fixed-flesh shape ... but there will be payment, slow payment - not quick, not quick at all! — Garth Nix

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged. — Mark Twain

What is addressed to us for contemplation does not threaten us, but makes us intellectual beings. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

salvation is less like a good man becoming a saintly man than it is like a statue coming to life. — Louis Markos

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure. — James Fallows

[Doubt] is not a new idea; this is the idea of the age of reason. This is the philosophy that guided the men who made the democracy that we live under. The idea that no one really knew how to run a government led to the idea that we should arrange a system by which new ideas could be developed, tried out, and tossed out if necessary, with more new ideas bought in - a trial-and-error system. This method was a result of the fact that science was already showing itself to be a successful venture at the end of the eighteenth century. Even then it was clear to socially minded people that the openness of possibilities was an opportunity, and that doubt and discussion were essential to progress into the unknown. If we want to solve a problem that we have never solved before, we must leave the door to the unknown ajar ... doubt is not to be feared, but welcomed and discussed. — Richard Feynman

'Bionic Woman' really enriched my career. It was a big, amazing thing to do. — Michelle Ryan

On climate change, we often don't fully appreciate that it is a problem. We think it is a problem waiting to happen. — Kofi Annan