Hermanis Quotes & Sayings

How vain are our fears! I thought to myself. Sometimes we fear that which our opponent (or fate) had never even considered! After this, then, is it any longer worthwhile to rack one's brain to find new ghosts to fear? No, indeed: All hail optimism! - upon playing Hermanis Mattison after he overlooked an unusual knight manouevre. — Aron Nimzowitsch

You think football builds character. It does not. It reveals character. — Bill Courtney

Scientists are human - they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process. — Cyril Ponnamperuma

Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog's repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people's earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive
— Steve Aylett

And now for Return to Flight, I'm chief of robotics working in the astronaut office in Houston, as a Canadian. — Chris Hadfield

I hate ridiculous names; my weird name has haunted me all my life. — Peaches Geldof

Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted. — Frederick Lenz

Cynophilist: paradoxical being that often despises man and adores the dog, apparently, mainly because of the unconditional love that the latter has for the first. — Luigina Sgarro

Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little wordings enjoy. — Edward Young

Any last words of advice?" Peeta asks. "Stay alive," Haymitch says gruffly. That's — Suzanne Collins

I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me. — Eddy Arnold