Guedj Debby Quotes & Sayings

If you are teaching Muslim sixth formers in a school, and you tell them they can't have their God and Darwin, there is a risk they will choose their God and be lost to science. — Martin Rees

Some of the best things I have ever thought of I have thought of during bad sermons. — Wendell Berry

I don't think any book of mine will ever come as close to pure fantasy as 'A Heaven of Others.' I'll never again set a book in a world or after-world in which it's impossible to buy a cup of coffee or take an undisturbed afternoon nap. — Joshua Cohen

The more experience you have, the more interesting cooking is because you know what can happen to the food. In the beginning you can look at a chicken and it doesn't mean much, but once you have done some cooking you can see in that chicken a parade of things you will be able to create. — Julia Child

And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation. — Barack Obama

I was addicted to amphetamines at the time I got busted, but I tend to think I was on a determined, self-destruct course that had little to do with the effect of Benzedrine. — Patricia McConnell

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

But is has happened, you know. Bear that in mind. Nothing you can do will change it. Time and again, I've found that a good thing to remember. — Edith Wharton

No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it. — Paul Leicester Ford

I've always felt fine about Putin. I think he is a strong leader, he's a powerful leader, he's represented his country the way - the country is being represented. — Donald Trump

In art, something comes of nothing. Out of the thin air and the ether, you create a story. And that is intensely satisfying. — Yann Martel

I love this mansion, though it is too many windows
... to open halfway each morning
... to close halfway each night. — Jim Carroll

Why did Google, for example, recently decide to offer free 411 service? I haven't talked to people at Google, but it's pretty clear to me why. It's because of speech recognition. It has nothing to do with 411 service: it has to do with getting a database of voices, so they don't have to license speech technology from Nuance or someone else. — Tim O'Reilly