Learman Peters Quotes & Sayings

He did not believe in luck at all, good or bad. Gamblers believed in luck, and he was not a gambler. Never had been, never would be. John Henry Holliday believed in mathematics, in statistics, in the computation of odds. Fifty-two cards in a deck. Make it easy. Say it's fifty. Any card has a 2 percent chance of being dealt from a full deck. Keep track of what's out. Adjust the probabilities as the hand progresses. — Mary Doria Russell

Some of life's best pleasures are simplest ones. Enrich your life with more of them and your heart will be happy. — Robin S. Sharma

The symbol is greater than visible substance ... Unhappy the land that has no symbols, or that chooses their meaning without great care. — Freya Stark

I don't think artists are made, I think they're born. — Captain Beefheart

I don't see it. It's a backward, primitive, unenlightened place. They don't even have a modern government. It's the worst government in any state. The laziest. It does nothing - outside of keeping law courts and a police department. It doesn't do anything for the people. It doesn't help anybody. I don't see why all our best companies want to run there. The — Ayn Rand

Beyond a certain point, the music isn't mine anymore. It's yours. — Phil Collins

Teaching is like trying to hold 35 corks underwater at once. — Mark Twain

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today. — Hermann Scheer

He saw very clearly how all his life led only to this moment and all after led to nowhere at all. He felt something cold and soulless enter him like another being and he imagined that it smiled malignly and he had no reason to believe that it would ever leave. — Cormac McCarthy

His voice is dark chocolate on a hot summer night. — Kristen Callihan

The quality of a survival kit is determined how much it can help you when you need to sleep. If you can sleep well at night, you have it made. It should also assist you in meeting your water needs. — Mors Kochanski

It was somehow slightly frightening, like the gambolling of tiger cubs which will soon grow up into man-eaters. — George Orwell