Liceo Quotes & Sayings

That the nobility of Man, acquired in a hundred centuries of trial and error, lay in making himself the conquerer of matter, and that I had enrolled in chemistry because I wanted to maintain faithful to that nobility. That conquering matter is to understand it, and understanding matter is necessary to understanding the universe and ourselves: and that therefore Mendeleev's Periodic Table, which just during those weeks we were laboriously learning to unravel, was poetry, loftier and more solemn than all the poetry we had swallowed doen in liceo; and come to think of it, it even rhymed! ...
[T]he chemistry and physics on which we fed, besides being in themselves nourishments vital in themselves, were the antidotes to Fascism ... because they were clear and distinct and verifiable at every step, and not a tissue of lies and emptiness like the radio and newspapers. — Primo Levi

I believe I'm going to die doing the things I was born to do. I believe I'm going to die high off the people. I believe I'm going to die a revolutionary in the international revolutionary proletarian struggle. — Fred Hampton

Perhaps ... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies. — Antoine Lavoisier

If you are not in the red playroom of pain and pleasure, ... shooting the movie is much like doing any other movie. — Marcia Gay Harden

An idle life and a holy heart is a contradiction. — Thomas Brooks

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. — Martin Luther King Jr.

It's quite all right," I assured him. "My mother always said that eggs were appropriate no matter the time of day." That was a filthy lie: My mother was a traditional woman who would have died before she'd fed me breakfast this late in the day. — Mira Grant

Prayer no longer seems like an activity to me; it has become the continuing language of the relationship I believe God designed to fulfill a human life. — Keith Miller

Social awkwardness is not a sin, in defense of liberty. — Matt Kibbe

I'm here to entertain. — Pitbull

That's the beauty of YouTube. You can take whatever you want and create a video from your home and put it up, and you're just sharing it with your friends. — Todrick Hall

Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth. — Francois Guizot

My method is much like choreography. I don't sit at a table. I work in a room with people. — Robert Wilson

The disappointment in his voice was like a knife to the gut, but I was keeping this secret to protect him just as much as myself. I headed for the window, climbing out before him. What should — Denise Grover Swank

I decided that I wanted a farm back in 1940 when I was with the Dodgers. I tried to find one within commuting distance of New York. — Larry MacPhail