Happy Birthday Nan Rip Quotes & Sayings

People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends. — John Brunner

I have a cat, the pet that ranks just above a throw pillow in terms of required responsibility. — Anna Quindlen

The pieces of the bodies of infidels were flying like dust particles. If you would have seen it with your own eyes, you would have been very pleased, and your heart would have been filled with joy. — Osama Bin Laden

When men achieve the fruits of their material success, they often become aware of an emptiness
an incompleteness
in their lives;the hollowness of having, but not raising, children, of not making true commitments to them. Which, sadly, does not mean that they weren't capable of it. — Willard Gaylin

It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?' — Aasif Mandvi

To those who are trained in science, creationism seems a bad dream, a sudden coming back to life of a nightmare, a renewed march of an Army of the Night risen to challenge free thought and enlightenment. — Isaac Asimov

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. — Johann Gottfried Von Herder

If we are to know ourselves, philosophy needs to maintain an ongoing dialogue with the sciences of mind. — George Lakoff

With today's movies, if we took out all the bad language, we'd go back to silent films. — Bob Hope

I just like music. If it's hookey and good, I dig it. — Chris Daughtry

Sometimes it's easier to show than it is to tell. — Paula Danziger

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of supernatural power. — Paracelsus

I wouldn't want everybody to be an art or literature major, but the world would be poorer - figuratively, anyway - if we were all coding software or running companies. We also want musicians to awaken our souls, writers to lead us into fictional lands, and philosophers to help us exercise our minds and engage the world. — Nicholas Kristof