Icebergs Bondi Quotes & Sayings

The truth properly means the sum of all true propositions, what omniscience would assert, the whole ideal system of qualities andrelations which the world has exemplified or will exemplify. The truth is all things seen under the form of eternity. — George Santayana

Statistics may be defined as a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty. — W. Allen Wallis

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. — Tennessee Williams

She could not think of what had happened to her that day, or of what might happen that night. Instead, she watched the lamplighters move along the avenues even as their celestial counterparts set the stars alight in the sky. The rain had washed the city clean, and the air was a confection of clematis and violets and peony. Music and light spilled out of so many grand houses that the two seemed at once ubiquitous and united, as if to play a note was to send forth a ray of illumination, and a quartet was enough to set the grandest halls aglitter. — Galen Beckett

The first thing baseball wants to do is make you a superstar and then say that you owe baseball something. I don't owe baseball anything. Baseball owes me. — Hank Aaron

Medieval illustrations of the mind from the fourteenth century depict memories like snakes feeding into the imagination and, long before this, both Aristotle and Galen described memories not as archives of our lives, but as tools for the imagination. — Claudia Hammond

People say I'm a gold digger, but do you see me wearing gold? No. I'm wearing diamonds. — Anna Benson

I tell girls, 'If you're tall and feel too tall, the answer is to be taller.' — Elizabeth Berkley

I think of the moment in time when everything changed. A moment that caused so much evil. The moment the Star fell from the sky. Then, I picture it never falling, disappearing, vanishing into thin air. I concentrate on that moment as warmth spreads throughout my body and I feel time fading, like the morning mist. Evanescence. — Jessica Sorensen

Sounded to me like he had a pretty good idea what he was saying," Van replied, with surprisingly little anger. "It's a pity he had to overintellectualize like that. He did such good work, and then he had to go and intellectualize it. — Jonathan Franzen

You'll have something to ride on that doesn't make your cock look as small as that gaudy turd. — James S.A. Corey

The over-ripe, golden autumn which had taken hold of the town tugged at our heartstrings. The nomadic life makes you sensitive to the seasons: you rely on them, even become part of the season itself, and each time they change, it seems to have to tear yourself away from a place where you have learned to live. — Nicolas Bouvier

Lucrezia has never seen her own face, and cannot know its expressions
how, at that moment, her smile was an explosion. — Lauren Groff

A lot times you have your frame very much in mind and you're waiting for things to fall in place. — Vincent Laforet