Fyrir Island Quotes & Sayings

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. — Burton Richter

No, I want you to rethink it and come up with the right opinion, I tell him. But this just makes him laugh. I have to let it go. There's no point in trying to dictate what Gale thinks. Which, if I'm honest, is one reason I trust him. — Suzanne Collins

You are the artist and the art. — Bryant H. McGill

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships? — Dorothy Day

It is dainty to be sick if you have leisure and convenience for it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

My career never suffered from my not being skinny. I never did catwalk work because I was always too big. I couldn't get the clothes over my hips. — Heidi Klum

The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them. — Neel Burton

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community. — Melissa Bean

It has always been my thought that the most important single ingredient to success in athletics or life is discipline. I have many times felt that this word is the most ill-defined in all of our language. My definition isas follows: 1. Do what has to be done; 2. When it has to be done; 3. As well as it can be done; and 4. Do it it that way all the time. — Bobby Knight

The daemoniac rattle and wheeze of a blasphemous organ, choking and rumbling out the mockeries of hell in a cracked, sardonic bass. — H.P. Lovecraft

Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again. — Jake Gyllenhaal

Black markets for things exist,' he said slowly, as if confiding a personal secret rather than a commercial fact, 'because the white markets are too strict. In this case, in the case of currencies, the government and the Reserve Bank of India control the white markets, and they're too strict. It's all about greed, and control. These are the two elements that make for commercial crime. Any one of them, on its own, is not enough. Greed without control, or control without greed won't give you a black market. Men can be greedy for the profit made from, let's say, pastries, but if there isn't strict control on the baking of pastries, there won't be a black market for apple strudel. And the government has very strict controls on the disposal of sewage, but without greed for profit from sewage, there won't be a black market for shit. When greed meets control, you get a black market. — Gregory David Roberts

It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible. — Arthur Machen

And Odin should have known from the first that perfect Order does not bend; it simply stands until it breaks, which is why it rarely survives for any meaningful length of time. — Joanne Harris