Headrest Monitor Quotes & Sayings

The principle of [divine] purpose ... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks ... The probability for such an event as the origin of DNA molecules to have occurred by sheer chance is just too small to be seriously considered. — Ernst Boris Chain

(Never) judge a book by its cover or a woman by her kitchen. — Cindy Woodsmall

One is sure to be disappointed if one tries to get romance out of modern life. — Oscar Wilde

A man is a fool not to put everything he has, at any given moment, into what he is creating. You're there now doing the thing on paper. You're not killing the goose, you're just producing an egg. So I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. I have never had the problem of a writing block. I've heard about it. I've felt reluctant to write on some days, for whole weeks, or sometimes even longer. I'd much rather go fishing, for example, or go sharpen pencils, or go swimming, or what not. But, later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference between what came easily and when I had to sit down and say, "Well, now it's writing time and now I'll write." There's no difference on paper between the two. — Frank Herbert

The US and Australia have a lot in common. One of the things we have in common is we produce a lot of carbon. — Barack Obama

When my turn came, I said I hoped one day to be the dictator of an Islamic republic with nuclear capability; the others appeared shocked, and I was forced to explain that I had been joking. — Mohsin Hamid

The At-mun-shi were as pagan as all the tribes in Africa, but they were peaceable and they were, as well, intense in their love of freedom. — Elizabeth Yates

Humour in its highest reach mingles with pathos: it voices sorrow for our human lot and reconciliation with it. — Stephen Leacock

Over 50 per cent of all American crime over the last 75 years has been blamed on drugs, because drugs are the single most convenient scapegoat for a society that is unable to blame itself. When it comes to explaining the presence of those drugs themselves, blame is still not placed on American consumers, but on the foreign supplies who grow the stuff. In America, there are no villains - only victims. — Dominic Streatfeild

Nobody is like anybody else. that's why nobody gets along with anybody else. — Ellen Wittlinger

The best time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. — Brad D. Smith

Capital punishment ... treats members of the human race ... as objects to be toyed with and discarded. — William J. Brennan

Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back. — George Carlin