Fourches Cheveux Quotes & Sayings

The light that shines through the windows of the eyes and ears - if those windows did not exist, the light would not stop. It would find other windows to shine through.
If you bring a lamp before the sun, do you say, "I see the sun by means of this lamp"? God forbid! If you did not bring the lamp, the sun would still shine. What need is there for a lamp? — Rumi

Nutrition science, which after all only got started less than two hundred years ago, is today approximately where surgery was in the year 1650 - very promising, and very interesting to watch, but are you ready to let them operate on you? I think I'll wait awhile. — Michael Pollan

Lifetimes have changed in what feels like a heartbeat. — Sara Raasch

Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself. — Michel De Montaigne

A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance — Aristotle.

If you do not learn to think today, tomorrow someone else will do and will wangle you.
THE WOMAN THAT USED TO PLAY HIDE AND SEEK, a story by David Cotos. — David Cotos

I found my father's Super8mm film camera when I was around eight years old and started shooting with it. I had no idea what I was doing at the time, but that's really where my filmmaking began. — Gabriel Campisi

You are the soul of the universe, the eyes of the world, and the feelings of nature. — Debasish Mridha

Why don't they just take him out?" I asked. I'm not politically minded, as I guess you can tell. Mr. Cataliades was smiling at me. "So direct, so classic," he said. "So American. — Charlaine Harris

Only Time is universal; Night and Day are merely quaint local customs found on those planets that tidal forces have not yet robbed of their rotation. — Arthur C. Clarke

Yet a period's character does affect individual character. Psychology, the study of what happens in our minds, is tightly interwoven with culture, the name we give to our beliefs, practices, and social behaviors. The scholar Andrew Delbanco goes so far as to define culture as a collective psychological notion. "Human beings need to organize the inchoate sensations amid which we pass our days - pain, desire, pleasure, fear - into a story," Delbanco writes. "When that story leads somewhere and thereby helps us navigate through life to its inevitable terminus in death, it gives us hope. And if such a sustaining narrative establishes itself over time in the minds of a substantial number of people, we call it culture. — Joshua Wolf Shenk

It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character. — Dag Hammarskjold

Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one? — Alexander The Great

Stop trying to predict ... — Warren Buffett