Furrowed Feature Quotes & Sayings

All great stars are competitive. That's a sign of a true artist - if you don't have the fire of competition deep down inside, you're never going to achieve anything. You have to want to be king of the heap. — Camille Paglia

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad. — Thomas Paine

The Greek epigram intimates that the force of love is not shown by the courting of beauty, but where the like desire is inflamed for one who is ill-favored. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

And the General regrets the night. — T. Mountebank

The fact that we still live well cannot ease the feeling that we no longer live nobly. — John Updike

Oh, miraculous chameleon, science, who can reverse your doctrine hourly and never shake our faith! What cult ever battered by this world of doubt can help but envy you? — Ada Palmer

Nothing can be more incorrect than the assumption one sometimes meets with, that physics has one method, chemistry another, and biology a third. — Thomas Huxley

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. 'tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning. — Mark Twain

Anything called the Teflon Corner is not sweet for free-soloing. — Alex Honnold

In May 2012 - a year after the Arab awakening erupted - the United States made two financial commitments to the Arab world that each began with the numbers 1 and 3. The U.S. gave Egypt's military regime $1.3 billion worth of tanks and fighter jets. It also gave Lebanese public school students a $13.5 million merit-based college scholarship program, putting 117 Lebanese kids through local American-style colleges that promote tolerance, gender and social equality, and critical thinking. Having visited both countries at that time, I noted in a column that the $13.5 million in full scholarships bought the Lebanese more capacity and America more friendship and stability than the $1.3 billion in tanks and fighter jets ever would. So how about we stop being stupid? — Thomas L. Friedman

The sky can never be frozen
because its vastness has chosen
all warmth of our lives as we look above
with unbreakable hearts armoured in love — Munia Khan

All the while, believe me, I prayed our night would last twice as long. — Sappho