Firnas Quotes & Sayings

Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome. — Lynn Townsend White Jr.

Bowen looked nervously about for peasants. It would be unendurable if they all turned out to be full of instinctive wisdom and natural good manners and unself-conscious grace and a deep, articulate understanding of death. — Kingsley Amis

My price is five dollars for a miniature on ivory, and I have engaged three or four at that price. My price for profiles is one dollar, and everybody is willing to engage me at that price. — Samuel Morse

You don't smear somebody as a racist when there is obviously nothing there. — Bernard Goldberg

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them. — John Wyndham

locomotive, Special trucks — David McCullough

What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? — Abbas Ibn Firnas

I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then why read it? — Franz Kafka

stand up, be bold. you are the sole and only cause. — Swami Vivekananda

What is salvation without faith? is like
a Christmas tree without a star, is like
a kingdom without a king, is like
a heart without a beat, is like
a light switch that just won't turn on. — Anthony Liccione