Funny Aha Moment Quotes & Sayings

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need. — Nigel Dennis

The Athenians had an oath for someone who was about to become a citizen. They had to swear that 'I shall leave the city not less but more beautiful than I found it.' — Richard Rogers

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper. — Randy Schekman

I'm satisfied with the way I play, but I don't evaluate my performances. I worry about what I can contribute defensively. I don't need to score. As long as we win, I don't care how many points I score. — Patrick Ewing

Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment. — Sydney Smith

A chap wouldn't hole up in Occupied France just to get away from his wife, Vesta. — Sara Sheridan

I don't believe, however, that every fiction we orchestrate is good. I cling to those that are painful, those that arise from a profound crisis of all our illusions. I love unreal things when they show signs of firsthand knowledge of the terror, and hence an awareness that they are unreal, that they will not hold up for long against the collisions. Human beings are extremely violent animals, and the violence they are always ready to use in order to impose their own eternal, salvific life vest, while shattering those of others, is frightening. — Elena Ferrante

As you get better and better working out, there's no one who can keep up with you running. If you don't have a good dog, it's going to be the most lonesome training camp you'll ever have. — George Foreman

I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are. — Lorrie Moore