Hummert Seeds Quotes & Sayings

Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are things Eric thinks I'm moving too quickly on, and there are things I think he's dragging out. When it gets to the editor they can arbitrate. — Robert Asprin

The evil that is in Man comes of sluggish minds ... for sluggards cannot think, and will not ... Send upon us thy flames that we may be burnt of dead thoughts, even as we burn dead grass ... make us see. — Richard Llewellyn

The funny thing about time in the OR, whether you race frenetically or proceed steadily, is that you have no sense of it passing. If boredom is, as Heidegger argued, the awareness of time passing, then surgery felt like the opposite: the intense focus made the arms of the clock seem arbitrarily placed. — Paul Kalanithi

The remarkable thing about the Bolshevik insurrection is that hardly any of the Bolshevik leaders had wanted it to happen until a few hours before it began. — Orlando Figes

Value friendship for what there is in it, not for what can be gotten out of it. — Henry Clay Trumbull

What the ocean was to the child, the Periodic Table is to the chemist. — Karl Barry Sharpless

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations. — G.K. Chesterton

The trick is growing up without growing old. — Casey Stengel

I don't have a TV at my house. I literally do not. I have a television, but I don't have anything plugged into it, though. I watch DVDs. — Aimee Teegarden

Those who are long on logic, definitions, abstractions, and formulas are frequently short on a sense of the concrete. — Flannery O'Connor