Junier Engineer Quotes & Sayings

There are truths that shield themselves behind veils, and are best spoken by implication. Even the sun veils himself in his own rays to blind the gaze of the too curious starer. — Amos Bronson Alcott

If fame is to come only after death, I am in no hurry for it. — Marcus Valerius Martial

All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar. — Helen Hayes

The media's worried about whether I've paid my taxes; they're worried about any number of silly things that have nothing to do with America. — Joe Wurzelbacher

And of course a bit of whoever we want to change into." "Excuse me?" said Ron sharply. "What d'you mean, a bit of whoever we're changing into? I'm drinking nothing with Crabbe's toenails in it - — J.K. Rowling

Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we've read, the author and the date. — Anne Frank

The visual stuff just lives inside of you. As far as really being able to take care of an actor on a set, how to talk to an actor, and how to get what you need out of a scene is probably where I might know a thing or two. Although, in TV, the actors are pretty much left alone. It's really the writer's medium more than anything. — Drea De Matteo

I felt more doubtful than usual with 'Goon Squad,' because I knew that the book's genre wasn't easily named - Novel? Stories? Novel-in-stories? - and I worried that its lack of a clear category would count against it. My hopes for it were pretty modest. — Jennifer Egan

Russia isn't likely to have any more military success in Syria and Iraq than has the United States. — David Ignatius

You are speaking ... as if the pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing ... what you call remembering is the last part of the pleasure. — C.S. Lewis

Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up and devoured those of the Egyptians. — Joseph Addison

In fact, science is neither materialist nor idealist; it is simply science. It's impartial and can't be answerable for the direction of its conclusions. — Valerian Pidmohylny

[Zombies] don't bother much as long as you can stay out from between their teeth. — Alden Bell

Whenever she had a problem to consider, she invariably found herself in the library, for it was easier to think when she was surrounded by books. — Erika Johansen

The man who has learned that three plus one are four doesn't have to go through a proof of that assertion with coins, or dice, or chess pieces, or pencils. He knows it, and that's that. He cannot conceive a different sum. There are mathematicians who say that three plus one is a tautology for four, a different way of saying "four" ... If three plus one can be two, or fourteen, then reason is madness. — Jorge Luis Borges