Ellie Downie Quotes & Sayings

Nobody can solve debt problems like me. — Donald Trump

With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter. — Lev Grossman

The growth of technology is such that it is not possible today for a nuclear physicist to switch into medical physics without training. The field is now much more technical. More training is needed to do the job. — John Cameron

All theories are legitimate, no matter. What matters is what you do with them. — Jorge Luis Borges

Anthropologists will tell you that oral cultures understand the past differently; for them, their histories don't need to be accurate so much as they need to validate the community's understanding of itself. So it wouldn't be correct to say that their histories are unreliable; their histories do what they need to do. — Ted Chiang

And it was one of these observers who designed the tests and simulations carried out on Old Earth during the last three centuries of its exile in the Lesser Magellanic Cloud to better explain our species to them and measure the empathy of which we are capable. — Dan Simmons

The Indians were inside their bodies, he decided, in a way that the British were not. His own flesh impeded his spirit. — Damon Galgut

Ever since Woodward and Bernstein, there's sort of been an epidemic of confidential sources in Washington, in particular where people will actually - when you call them up on the phone, they'll say, 'This is off the record,' or, 'This is on background,' or they don't even wait for you to say anything. — Lowell Bergman

She hit bottom when she physically attacked a deaf-mute. This was a boy of fourteen, a beloved neighborhood figure who delivered for the nearby deli. — David Sedaris

How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry? — Rhian Williams

What ravaged my mind was the thought.

The thought of you. — Sreesha Divakaran

He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. (Unless the other guy has a gun!) — Quentin R. Bufogle

In an article about the warning, the paper quoted Cunard's New York manager, Charles Sumner, as saying that in the danger zone "there is a general system of convoying British ships. The British Navy is responsible for all British ships, and especially for Cunarders." The Times reporter said, "Your speed, too, is a safeguard, is it not?" "Yes," Sumner replied; "as for submarines, I have no fear of them whatever. — Erik Larson