Jimeoin Birthplace Quotes & Sayings

Naked, she lay sprawled on her side like a shipwrecked cello. — Tom Robbins

I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye. — Jack Nicholson

Liberation from prevailing conventions of thought, feeling and behaviour is accomplished most effectively by the practice of disinterested virtues and through direct insight into the real nature of ultimate reality. (Such insight is a gift, inherent in the individual; but, though inherent, it can not manifest itself completely except where certain conditions are fulfilled. The principle pre-condition of insight is, precisely, the practice of disinterested virtues.) — Aldous Huxley

This whole electric universe is a complex maze of similar tensions. Every particle of matter in the universe is separated from its condition of oneness, just as the return ball is separated from the hand, and each is connected with the other one by an electric thread of light which measures the tension of that separateness. — Walter Russell

Cut down on your use of plastic shopping bags because many end up in the ocean. — Angela Kinsey

The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. — Fay Weldon

Utopias now appear much more realizable than one used to think. We are now faced with a different new worry: How to prevent their realization. — Nikolai Berdyaev

Even as a child, I felt very guilty about eating animals and never knew that there was something to do about it. And as I got older, it became clearer that there are things that I can do and choices I can make. — Mayim Bialik

First and foremost, Tendulkar is an entertainer and that for me is as important factor as any fact or figure. Too often boring players have been pushed forward as great by figures alone. For sheer entertainment, he will keep cricket alive. — Barry Richards

Welcome to Dauntless! Where you either face your fears and try not to die in the process or you leave a coward — Veronica Roth

I have a huge impact with young girls. Young women. That's my demographic. — Chelsea Handler

I am using the word theory as a scientist means it: a set of ideas so well established by observations and physical models that it is essentially indistinguishable from fact. That is different from the colloquial use that means "guess." To a scientist, you can bet your life on a theory. Remember, gravity is "just a theory" too. — Philip Plait

I stand in front of him, trying to figure out how to look friendly or normal and where to put my hands ... It seems ridiculous suddenly that people have hands and no place to put them. — Brenna Yovanoff

If we wish that the name Israel be not extinguished, then we are in duty bound
to create something which may serve as a center for our entire people, like the
heart in an organism, from which the blood will stream into all the arteries of
the national body and fill it with life. — Eliezer Ben-Yehuda

The elections in Iraq are a victory for freedom and the Iraqi people, and a blow to the transnational network of terrorists who have tried to prevent this day from happening. — Jim Talent