Hinrichs Estimating Quotes & Sayings

Good things come slow, especially in distance running. — Bill Dellinger

He felt safe with her. He'd never been safe with another human being, not since he'd been taken as a child from his home. He'd never been able to trust. He could never give that last small piece - all that was left of his humanity - into someone else's keeping. And now there was Rikki. She let him be whatever he had to be to survive. She didn't ask anything of him. There was no hidden motive. No agenda. Just acceptance. She was different - imperfect, or so she thought - and she knew what it was like to fight to carve out a space for herself. She was willing for him to do thar. — Christine Feehan

For more details about the Curies especially, see Sheilla Jones's wonderful book The Quantum Ten, an account of the surprisingly contentious and fractious early days of quantum mechanics, circa 1925. — Sam Kean

I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true. — Richard Rohr

Aside from purely technical analysis, nothing can be said about music, except when it is bad; when it is good, one can only listen and be grateful. — W. H. Auden

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room. — Wanda Jackson

As man is never strong enough to take unmixed delight in good, so may we presume also that he cannot be quite so weak as to find perfect satisfaction in evil. — Anthony Trollope

All scientist are oglers, i suppose, the sensuousness is a sine quo non of modern technology — Aporva Kala

The flame consists of a splendid clarity, of an unusual vigor, and od an ingenious ardor, but possesses the splendid clarity that it may illuminate and the ingenious ardor that it may burn. — Umberto Eco