Franklin Winthrop Quotes & Sayings

In our heads we're all about 33 years old. — Douglas Coupland

When you believe you have found an important scientific fact, and are feverishly curious to publish it, constrain yourself for days, weeks, years sometimes, fight yourself, try and ruin your own experiments, and only proclaim your discovery after having exhausted all contrary hypotheses. But when, after so many efforts you have at last arrived at a certainty, your joy is one of the greatest which can be felt by a human soul. — Louis Pasteur

I think what I have is straightforwardness, unabashedness rather than charm. — Nicholas Haslam

It happened in pieces, tiny little turning points. I'll never figure out when it all turned, because it wasn't a single moments. It doesn't matter how many times I look back, how many times I try to figure it out. There is no before and after. Just a year of choices. — Amanda Grace

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops. — Judith McNaught

Teachers shape so much of what a kid's upbringing can be. — Curtis Granderson

It's a great challenge and a wonderful journey how to figure out how to be an artist and to carve my way. — Tobin Bell

Altogether one quarter of German territory was lost in 1945, territory which had for many centuries belonged to Germany. — Neil MacGregor

As Sean seem determined to shadow her every move, she concluded that young boys were much like cats. They insisted on giving their company to those who most feared or distrusted them. — J.D. Robb

But it grieves my heart, love,
To see you tryin' to be a part of
A world that just don't exist.
It's all just a dream, babe,
A vacuum, a scheme, babe,
That sucks you into feelin' like this.
I can see that your head
Has been twisted and fed
By worthless foam from the mouth.
I can tell you are torn
Between stayin' and returnin'
On back to the South.
From To Ramona — Bob Dylan

Republican voters already hated Democrats so much that [Bill] Clinton and [Barack] Obama didn't really have much impact. — Kevin Drum

You don't need to be an expert in order to achieve satisfactory investment returns. But if you aren't, you must recognize your limitations and follow a course certain to work reasonably well. Keep things simple and don't swing for the fences. — Warren Buffett

Who's gonna win between two brothers? The Klitschko mother's gonna win because she said it won't happen. — Wladimir Klitschko