Joel Olson Quotes & Sayings

Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group. — Gerald Edelman

It was hope that brought me love. — Nely Cab

The most incomprehensible aspect of horror is that there is nothing to understand. Horror is incredibly shallow and common. One only needs two things in order to kill: the ability and the desire. — Albert Sanchez Pinol

If the thing is feasible, the first to do it ought to be an Englishman. — Jules Verne

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves. — Thomas Jefferson

Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit. — Chris Burkard

At our best, we are all teachers — Maya Angelou

But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice
guessed and refused to believe
that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chance, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the rainbow, and they its children ... — Thomas Pynchon

Just because you're upfront with someone doesn't mean you're an honest person; you might just be someone in the passenger seat. — Brian Celio

In a very profound sense all of our understanding of the world around us, including our understanding of God, consists of learned, repeating patterns that are recognized and are able to be recalled by the brain. — Dennis McCorkle

And I think, on the other end, there were actors who were not as good as I was, perhaps who could have hung in too, but began to blame everything on race. — James Earl Jones

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever. — Daniel Mendelsohn

Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable. — John Piper

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable. — Naomi Campbell