Joost Klein Quotes & Sayings

It is the children between five and seven who are the word-lovers. It is they who show a predisposition toward such study. Their undeveloped minds can not yet grasp a complete idea with distinctness. They do, however, understand words. And they may be entirely carried away by their ecstatic, their tireless interest in the parts of speech. — Maria Montessori

Google X is here to do moonshot-type projects. Not just shooting to the moon, but bringing the moon back to Earth. — Sebastian Thrun

I wish to God I could talk to her the way she wants me to, besides forever making her guess what I'm thinking. Why can't I find the words? — Donal Ryan

How you coach them is how they're going to play. — Stefan Fatsis

For all the tantalizing and provocative character of the Viking results, I know a hundred places on Mars which are far more interesting than our landing sites. The ideal tool is a roving vehicle carrying on advanced experiments, particularly in imaging, chemistry and biology. Prototypes of such rovers are under development by NASA. They know on their own how to go over rocks, how not to fall down ravines, how to get out of tight spots. It is within our capability to land a rover on Mars that could scan its surroundings, see the most interesting place in its field of view and, by the same time tomorrow, be there. Every day a new place, a complex, winding traverse over the varied topography of this appealing planet. — Carl Sagan

Reading is the perfect escape from whatever ails you. — Jessica Spotswood

No government can sell its nation on the backs of its people. — Fidel Castro

I'M HOPELESS, because I've lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I'm not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails. — Benjamin Watson

Yoga is almost like music in a way; there's no end to it. — Sting

Now if you not only support them through that pregnancy, but now provide childcare for them so they can go back to school and get their GED or their associate's degree or bachelor's degree or their master's degree, learn how to take care of themselves, teach their baby how to take care of themselves so that you break the cycle of the dependency. — Benjamin Carson

Sometimes one gets the feeling that life still thinks it's living in Paris in the '30s. — Tom Robbins

It looked like I'd tried to trap Cthulhu. — Maggie Stiefvater

My hair was so overprocessed that after it was shampooed, it was like a dry brillo pad. I'd almost say it was the texture of pubic hair, but pubic hair is softer and has more body. — Lonnice Brittenum Bonner

And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always. — Sylvia Plath