Izhak Eschenbach Quotes & Sayings

There is, following an ample meal, a sort of pause in time, filled with a gentle slackening of thought and energy, when to sit doing nothing gives us a sense of life's richness and a feeling that the least effort would be intolerable. The melancholy we took with us to table has disappeared and, if we think of it at all it is only to smile, as at some black mood now past, its cause having gone. And with the melancholy, all scruple, all remorse departs from us. — Marcel Proust

Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum.

(English: "I doubt, therefore I think, therefore I am") — Rene Descartes

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf. — Henry Longhurst

You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand. — Carole King

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all. — Patrick Ewing

The United States government continues to pour billions of dollars into research on cancer, while it also subsidizes the tobacco industry. Much of the research money goes toward animal experiments, many of them only remotely connected with fighting cancer - experimenters have been known to relabel their work "cancer research" when they found they could get more money for it that way than under some other label. — Peter Singer

Life is a tightrope between two errors: generalizing the wrong particular and particularizing the wrong general. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb