Filenes Quotes & Sayings

Evolving life must experience a vast range of possibilities, based on environmental histories so unpredictable that no realized route - the pathway to consciousness in the form of Homo sapiens or Little Green Men, for example - can be construed as a highway to heaven, but must be viewed as a tortuous track rutted with uncountable obstacles and festooned with innumerable alternative branches. Any reasonably precise repetition of our earthly route on another planet therefore becomes wildly improbable even in a trillion cases. — Stephen Jay Gould

Backstage passes at a middle school choir concert. I hang with a crew who knows how to live. — Hannah Johnson

It is our happiness to live under the government of a PRINCE who is satisfied with ruling according to law; as every other good prince will - We enjoy under his administration all the liberty that is proper and expedient for us. — Jonathan Mayhew

Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. — Rem Koolhaas

The opportunities to become an astronaut in Canada were far and few. — Julie Payette

I wish you many congratulations on your birthday. — Auliq Ice

I have always felt that the great lottery of life is unfair. The fact is that I was thrown up on the stage of life called Australia. You don't choose where you are thrown on to this stage. So universal health, universal education, of course plenty of food and clean water. — Tim Costello

To me, ultimate happiness is a journey, not a destination. It's not somewhere you end up, it's making choices every day to make yourself happy. — Lizzie Velasquez

We are always children to our mothers. — Ivy Compton-Burnett

More than the act of testing, the act of designing tests is one of the best bug preventers known. — Boris Beizer

Somerset is where I call home, and where I feel most myself. — James Purefoy

You tell him that - tell him he fucks with the angel at his peril. — Sylvain Reynard