Inspirational Rotary Quotes & Sayings

But what if you are a smart girl in love? All because I was a book nerd didn't mean, I didn't feel, I didn't want. Shylock had cried out in excess of pain, "If you prick me do I not bleed!" But a book nerd is not allowed to be human, to say "you make me melt" and still have her mind want something else entirely? — Candice Raquel Lee

[The] first postulate of the Principle of Uniformity, namely, that the laws of nature are invariant with time, is not peculiar to that principle or to geology, but is a common denominator of all science. In fact, instead of being an assumption or an ad hoc hypothesis, it is simply a succinct summation of the totality of all experimental and observational evidence. — M. King Hubbert

If with pleasure you are viewing
Any work a man is doing;
If you like him or you love him, tell him now.
Don't withhold your approbation
Till the preacher makes oration
And he lies with snowy lilies o'er his brow.
For no matter how you shout it,
He won't really care about it;
He won't know how many teardrops you have shed.
If you think some praise is due him,
Now's the time to slip it to him,
For He cannot read his tombstone when he's dead. — Clyde H. Box

I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason. — Roger Ebert

I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel. — Troian Bellisario

It's never too late to create! — D.E. Lamont

The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class. — Karl Lagerfeld

I've worked really hard. I've made three pieces of seminal art in my life. If I died tomorrow, I'd be remembered for making them. There are a lot of artists who, no matter how hard they work in their lives, will never make anything seminal. — Tracey Emin

I need the gays at the shows. If I don't have the gays, I just go nuts, because they always know every word and they're the best core audience you can have. — Courtney Love

What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't. — Jimmy Wales

How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. — William Cowper

Sometimes men pick fights just for something to do-just to feel something like the threat of harm and the possibility of triumph. — Jack Donovan