Ian Chambers Quotes & Sayings

I could trust a fact and always cross-question an assertion. — Michael Faraday

Taste and smell are often the beggars among our five senses - they leave no written language and therefore no standards other than wholly personal ones. Tasting a superlative Moselle wine can be an aesthetic experience no less genuine than hearing a Mozart piano concerto or seeing for the first time an original Breughel painting. — Frank Schoonmaker

I suppose we'll never know what really happened in that room, though he did tell police, "I did it because I'm a dirty dog." This is not a very convincing alibi. He may as well have said, "I got 99 problems, but a bitch ain't one. — Chuck Klosterman

The Holy Spirit is no temporary gift, He abides with the saints. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

You can kill my body, and you can take my life but you can never kill my soul. My soul will live forever! — Huey Newton

Looked as if the various parts of its more or less humanoid body didn't quite fit properly. — Douglas Adams

But surely the simplicity of an explanation is no necessary criterion of its truth.17 — Frans De Waal

Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial. — Susie Orbach

I'm close to my mother's heart and know its rhythms and sudden turns. And now! It accelerates at her husband's voice, and there's an added sound, a disturbance in the chambers, like the distant rattling of maracas, or gravel shuffled softly in a tin. From down here I'd say it's a semilunar valve whose cusps are snapping to hard and sticking. Or it could be her teeth. — Ian McEwan

I feel so much more comfortable that I've ever been. I've felt male as far back as I can remember. — Chaz Bono

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. — Michelangelo

A warm bath is a wonderful place for heavy conversation. — Eva Vanrell