Iyyad Abueida Quotes & Sayings

Speak the language of high intelligence, and thus you speak the language of God. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

For life is practically a battle. To all intents and purposes a battle. Except for a few lucky fellows who can read books, and so avoid the realities. — E. M. Forster

The best way to get a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. — Linus Pauling

I simply would not accede to being forced into this, and would frequently be kept out of classes because of irreverent comments and mocking this religious stuff. Frankly, it stayed with me to this day. In fact, don't get me going. I'm almost as bad as Richard Dawkins on this issue. — Richard E. Leakey

I guess I have never been much of a complainer. You just take what is given you, and don't complain about what you can't affect. — Tom Watson

I'm sorry if I seem to digress, but that is precisely what I was thinking at the moment. It's the way my mind works. Things are not the same in real life as they are in, for instance, the fictional world of Sherlock Holmes. Brains, in reality, do not go clickety-clickety-clickety-click from A to B to C to D and so forth, rushing like a train along the rails, until at the end, with a happy "Toot-toot!" they arrive at their destination, Z, and the case is suddenly solved. Quite the contrary. In reality, analytical minds such as my own are forever shooting wildly off in all directions simultaneously. It's like joyously hitting jelly with a sledgehammer; like exploding galaxies; like a display of fireworks in which the pyrotechnic engineer has had a bit too much to drink and set off the whole conglobulation all at once, by accident. — Alan Bradley

I've always loved interior design. — Genie Francis

You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi — Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide Team

I photograph you every morning
In a cruel attempt to capture
A formal souvenir of what I love — Susan Rich

I always had the same feeling: to become nothing,
and yet to destroy that nothingness! — Vladimir Holan

But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those things which lie under the direct scrutiny of the senses, close to the nose. It is this difficulty that sets a value upon all works of art and makes them a necessity. The senses witnessing what is immediately before them in detail see a finality which they cling to in despair, not knowing which way to turn. Thus this so-called natural or scientific array becomes fixed, the walking devil of modern life. — William Carlos Williams

One of the most rewarding aspects of my research has been the opportunity to study the potential applications of a new catalyst. — Robert H. Grubbs

Dead silence filled the room. Five Whitecloaks stood in the middle of the floor, studiously being ignored by the folk at the tables. — Robert Jordan