Koestenbaum Phyllis Quotes & Sayings

No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, reproducible evidence, and so far we cannot test the universe before the Big Bang. — Michio Kaku

Most writers can write three times as many books as I have and still live a life. — James Salter

I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids. — Angelina Jolie

Saying "please" without saying it to someone you don't want to say "please" to in the first place tops the list of hard. — Rita Williams-Garcia

Great faith is the product of great fights. Great testimonies are the outcome of great tests. Great triumphs can only come out of great trials. — Smith Wigglesworth

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives. — Charles Bukowski

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. — Thomas Jefferson

We find that no matter what country we're in, if we hit the right economic notes and appeal to the mass market, we're able to build the business very, very rapidly. — Fred DeLuca

She yawned, and Rowan rubbed his eyes, his other hand still in hers. But he didn't let go. And when she awoke before dawn, warm and safe and rested, Rowan was still holding her hand, clasped to his chest. — Sarah J. Maas

The odor of the room was baked fruit, beeswax, pine, and old newspapers. — Amanda Coplin

Tuesday had come down through Dundrum and Foster Avenue, brine-fresh from sea-travel, a corn-yellow sun-drench that called forth the bees at an incustomary hour to their day of bumbling. Small house-flies performed brightly in the embrasures of the windows, whirling without fear on imaginary trapezes in the lime-light of the sun-slants. — Flann O'Brien

I'm sorry, honey. I'm sure if you were a terrorist, you'd make a wonderful one — Madeleine George

What's great is we actually have friends who belong or have previously belonged to the Amish community, so we got first hand stories and I was able to talk with them about visitors and visiting the Amish country. It was very enlightening to think this is very much going on as we speak. What was really interesting was that the upcoming Amish generation is actually closer to average American teenager in their use of the English language because of the use of technology. — Alyson Stoner

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. — Daphne Guinness

The mustiness that permeated the apartment, its whole subterranean atmosphere, was redolent of an abandoned tomb. — Jose Saramago