Etcetera Sushi Quotes & Sayings

A poor original is better than a good imitation. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print. — Peter Sotos

However, the observed orbit of Uranus consistently differed from what Newton's theory predicted. This puzzle was solved in 1846 by two scientists, Adams in England and Leverrier in France, working independently. They suggested that there was another planet, as yet undiscovered, exerting an additional gravitational force on Uranus. Adams and Leverrier were able to calculate the mass and position that this planet would have to have, if its gravitational pull was indeed responsible for Uranus' strange behaviour. Shortly afterwards the planet Neptune was discovered, almost exactly where Adams and Leverrier had predicted. Now — Samir Okasha

An elderly camper realizes, with heart-skipping dismay, that during his afternoon bowel movement, he is unwittingly shitting on a zombie. — Robert Kirkman

I became a playwright and screenwriter. Italian-Americans were my particular specialty. I liked the way they talked. There was something free in it. — John Patrick Shanley

Growing corn, which from a biological perspective had always been a process of capturing sunlight to turn into food, has in no small measure become a process of converting fossil fuels into food. — Michael Pollan

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages. — David Foster Wallace

But the larger a man grows in his own inner darkness, the more his outer form diminishes. — Milan Kundera

Life is an adventure in forgiveness — Norman Cousins

Since 1949, the United States has passed to Israel more than $100 billion in grants and $10 billion in special loans.36 Other bodies not part of the administration annually transfer to Israel $1 billion. This is larger than the amount of money transferred by the United States to North Africa, South America, and the Caribbean put together. — Noam Chomsky

Too often, the landlord-tenant relationship is unbalanced with all the power on the side of unscrupulous landlords. — Nydia Velazquez

I didn't know there were so many ways to say I love you. — Heather Demetrios

If you're eating vegetables you are probably pushing unhealthier food out of your diet. — Dan Buettner

I believe the causes that create them [serial killers] are theological in nature, rather than societal. I believe they make a conscious choice to erase God's thumbprint from their souls. — James Lee Burke