Hospes Maricel Quotes & Sayings

Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz

true human grandeur lay in the practice of kindness without conditions, in the capacity of giving to those who had nothing, but not what we have left over but rather a part of what little we have - giving until it hurts without practicing the deceitful philosophy of forcing others to accept our concepts of good and truth because (we believe) they're the only possible ones and because, besides, they should be grateful for what we give them, even when they didn't ask for it. — Leonardo Padura

it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot, than to speak and remove all doubt'. — Craig Alanson

I got Soul Power, never took a cold shower,
Never had a girlfriend the color of cooking flour. — J-Ro

But when you're a teenage boy, you can be narrow-minded about things that are girlie, things that are frivolous, things that are pop. Boys always want to be taken seriously, and they always want to transcend the tawdry emotion of the pop singer
it's a fairly standard response to the rigors of young manhood ... This isn't so different from how people talk about culture now. Rock epics are for boys; pop hits are for girls. When you're a boy, pop is scary because it's a maneater. You sing along with a pop song, you turn into a girl. That takes some degree of emotional risk. — Rob Sheffield

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism. — Swami Vivekananda

The Art Snob will stand back from a picture at some distance, his head cocked slightly to one side — Russell Lynes

Science has faith. We make postulates. We can't prove those postulates, but we have faith in them. — Charles H. Townes

The writings are built by imagination. Emotions fill the colours to them. — Sameer Khan

Then the great hour struck, and every man showed himself in his true colors. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Quite soon my office was a jumble of broken bits of rocks, and needles, and old monographs, all coated in fine, limy dust. I still work in an identical office today. Tidy people's eyes go all peculiar when they come into it. I have a special small padded seat for them to collapse into. — Richard Fortey