Gogita Gogitide Quotes & Sayings

But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?"
"Nothing is more probable," said the Profesor, taking off his spectacles and beginning to polish them, while he muttered to himself, "I wonder what they do teach them at these schools. — C.S. Lewis

[C]ontingency is a thing unto itself, not the titration of determinism by randomness. — Stephen Jay Gould

Along with every other male of his acquaintance he loathed the Naked Chef with messianic passion and prayed for the day he suffered a fatal accident on his scooter or burst into flames with the friction of sliding down that nauseating banister. Mark hated to think how rich he must be. And the fact that a mere bloody cook was taking up space in The Times that could be filled by a train journalist. Like himself, for example. Bastard. — Wendy Holden

The end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth century were remarkable for the small amount of scientific movement going on in this country, especially in its more exact departments ... Mathematics were at the last gasp, and Astronomy nearly so-I mean in those members of its frame which depend upon precise measurement and systematic calculation. The chilling torpor of routine had begun to spread itself over all those branches of Science which wanted the excitement of experimental research. — John Herschel

Most seafoods should be simply threatened with heat and then celebrated with joy. — Jeff Smith

I know I have an awful lot to learn from the people of Minnesota. — Al Franken

The place was a funeral pyre for the young
who died before knowing the thirst of man
or woman. Furies with snakes in their hair
wept. Tantalus ate pears & sipped wine
in a dream, as the eyes of a vulture
poised over Tityus' liver. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Your job is not done when you have determined your goal. You must also plan for and determine how it is to be accomplished. Goals and plans are meaningless if they cannot be executed successfully! — Gary Ryan

What you possess is not what you jingle in the pockets of your memory, but the imaginings with which you fill the spaces of the future. — Elizabeth Bibesco

I really like accompanying. I like working with vocalists, I've worked with a lot of poets. — Z'EV

Peace, development and human rights are essentially inter-related, inter-dependent and indivisible. — Theo Van Boven