Filtrant Quotes & Sayings

I was a bad journalist. — David Brock

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him. — Ray Bradbury

It is the Lord's Day, and I do believe that cheerful hearts and faces are not unpleasant in His sight. — Thomas Bailey Aldrich

It is worthwhile to engage in something that is close to one's heart. I had a scholarship. So if I donate money to give brilliant Chinese students an opportunity to study abroad, then this embodies everything I believe in: education, globalization, social mobility. I am an example of social mobility. — Zhang Xin

Rather than say that the bacterium gained resistance to the antibiotic, we would be more correct to say that it lost its sensitivity to it. It lost information ... Information cannot be built up by mutations that lose it. A business can't make money by losing it a little at a time. — Lee Spetner

Sexual frenzy is our compensation for the tedious moments we must suffer in the passage of life. 'Nothing in excess,' professed the ancient Greeks. Why if I spend half the month in healthy scholarship and pleasant sleep, shouldn't I be allowed the other half to howl at the moon and pillage the groins of Europe's great beauties? — Roman Payne

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. — George Orwell

You find yourself approaching middle age, playing another scuzzy rock club. — Juliana Hatfield