Horobin Saddles Quotes & Sayings

Because a lake is conceived as having only two primary dimensions, you can't swim inside the lake, though that would seem to make geometric sense. Lederer asks why we say that something can be underwater or underground even though it's surrounded by, not beneath, the water or the ground. It's because water and ground are conceived as 2-D surfaces, not 3-D volumes, geologically improbable though that is. The dimensionality of an object is also the aspect of its geometry that modifiers "see" when they combine with it in a phrase. A big CD, for example, has to have an above-average diameter, not an above-standard thickness (that could only be a thick CD), and a big lake has to be one with an unusually large area, regardless of its depth; it can't be a few yards wide and a mile deep. — Steven Pinker

The narrower their lives, the wider their hips. — Toni Morrison

Your readiness to suffer will light the torch of freedom which will never be put out. — Mahatma Gandhi

It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things. — Ray Bradbury

I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who say, 'It can't happen,' are many of the same people who said we'd never elect an African American. — Mark McKinnon

It was never my goal to be an actor. — Rachel Hurd-Wood

If it were not for the reporters, I would tell you the truth. — Chester A. Arthur

What is it about animation, graphics, illustrations, that create meaning? And this is an important question to ask and answer because the more we understand how the brain creates meaning, the better we can communicate, and, I also think, the better we can think and collaborate together. — Tom Wujec

The primary task of a Jew in turbulent times is to be Jewish. — Elie Wiesel

The human heart is as a frail craft on which we wish to reach the stars. — Giotto Di Bondone

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore

No, men and women of the Irish race, we shall not fight for England. We shall fight for the destruction of the British Empire and the construction of an Irish republic. — James Larkin

I win everyday I'm out there. — Fuzzy Zoeller