Katie Makkai Quotes & Sayings

They say that nothing is certain but death and taxes, and I already screwed one of those up, so I better pay my taxes.... — Edmund Alexander Sims

It's very clear that there's a lot of double standards going on. Should there be a 30mph speed limit? Of course there bloody should. And certainly with kids and school food, kids need to be nannied for sure. So give them a bloody good meal at school. — Jamie Oliver

Words are not in the power of men; men are in the power of words. Every time we open our mouths, a thousand dead men speak through us. — Hermann Bahr

No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. — Kevin J. Anderson

Sometimes a person's life is longer than their years. — Jill Eileen Smith

Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on! — Kim Fields

Writing is a solitary experience. I'm extremely superstitious. If I talk about the book or name the title out loud before finishing, I feel the energy I need to write will be drained. It's so intimate, I can't even share it with my wife. — Paulo Coelho

In principle. what is done is to take the nucleus out of a cell with a very fine micro-pipette or needle and introduce it into an egg. That had been done with amphibians a long time ago, and then there was a long pause of many years before people were clever enough to make that work in the sheep. — John Gurdon

I play to win and if it looks like I've lost, its only because its not over yet. — Kiera Dellacroix

All action is vicarious faith. — Abraham Joshua Heschel

I used to build my own PCs ... and actually had one of the first water-cooled, overclocked PCs around. I ran it at over 4Ghz, and this was back in 2001 ... but alas, I do not have the time for that fun anymore. — Brian Krzanich

Certainly I'm a Christian first and foremost. But I do believe in religious tolerance and finding the commonality between all of us. I think that's how we're all going to come together. — Dennis Quaid

What could she have been thinking about? Not much, I guess; not back then, not at the time. She was thinking about how not to think. The times were abnormal. She — Margaret Atwood

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength. — Francois Fenelon

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love. — Nathaniel Parker Willis