Fancydo Quotes & Sayings

Unless one is a religious fundamentalist and believes that man was created in the image and likeness of God, it is foolish to believe that human beings are exempt from biological classification and the laws of evolution that apply to all other life forms. — J. Philippe Rushton

He very soon acquired the reputation of being the best public speaker of his time. He had taken pains to master the art, approaching it with scientific precision. On the morning of a day on which he was giving a speech, he once told Wilkie Collins, he would take a long walk during which he would establish the various headings to be dealt with. Then, in his mind's eye, he would arrange them as on a cart wheel, with himself as the hub and each heading a spoke. As he dealt with a subject, the relevant imaginary spoke would drop out. When there were no more spokes, the speech was at an end. Close observers of Dickens noticed that while he was speaking he would make a quick action of the finger at the end of each topic, as if he were knocking the spoke away. — Simon Callow

I have no intention of being a potted plant, and just getting watered every so often. — Richard J. Codey

Memories never did anyone any good, and weepy sentiment was for fools too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done. — Jennifer Estep

Still, I'd do anything for him. Even smear his clotting blood inside the vehicle of his choosing. — Jennifer Estep

So far as we know, no pollster has asked the public, "Are you getting your money's worth for the more than 40 percent of your income being spent on your behalf by government?" But — Milton Friedman

COOK'S TIP: Bake every day. If you have to leave town fast, you'll always have something good to eat in the car. — Joan Bauer

It's probably not that brilliant of a revelation. It's just part of growing up, I guess - realizing that the stuff you were laser-focused on was just a tiny shard of an infinite universe, and quite possibly the tiniest and least important shard. And you start thinking that maybe you should chain your soul to something bigger, something that's outside the universe. So you start looking. — Luke T. Harrington

Anna worked in television advertising, she told him.

In a studio with guys past their sell-by date, who mistake women for a cross between an espresso machine and a sofa. — Nina George