Impedimenta Editorial Quotes & Sayings

When something startlingly new comes up, young people, especially, seize it. You can't complain about that. I think its heyday has passed, but it's had an effect and will continue to have an effect. — M.H. Abrams

In the spring of 1959, I received an offer of a professorship at Harvard, which I accepted with alacrity since I wanted to be near my family and since the chemistry department at Harvard was unsurpassed. — Elias James Corey

Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother. — Pope Francis

Without the harmonious electrochemical activity of all the brain structure, the very thing which we call "mind", would suddenly disappear from the face of earth. — Abhijit Naskar

If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time. — Mark Twain

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much. — Billie Jean King

As time would prove, he had written one of the great, enduring documents of the American Revolution. The constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the oldest functioning written constitution in the world. — David McCullough

You know who would make an interesting murder-suicide? Madeline Albright and Yanni. — George Carlin

My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he captained the British forces team. We then moved to S.A. because a lot of players did that at the time. — Richard Gough