Lilliam Fernandez Quotes & Sayings

Studying the universe engages us in something bigger than ourselves. Science tries to describe, in terms we can only grasp intuitively, things that are beyond our intuition ... all we can hope for is that our physical descriptions, like a song or a good painting, are a faithful evocation of some ineffable truth. — Guy Consolmagno

Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures. — John Jakes

But in a subtler fashion. Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as — Arthur C. Clarke

No person on earth has the power to make you unhappy. There is no event on earth that has the power to disturb you or hurt you. No event, condition, situation, or person. Nobody told you this; they told you the opposite. That's why you're in the mess you're in right now. That is why you're asleep. They never told you this. But it's self-evident. — Anthony De Mello

Ayla, what am I doing wrong?" he asked, standing in front of her, dripping. "It's not you. I'm the one who's doingit wrong." "You're not doing anything wrong." "Yes I am. I've been trying all day to encourage you, but you don't understand Clan gestures. — Jean M. Auel

I'd rather spend $200 a month to board a horse I only ride once or twice a month than to pay the same price to talk to a psychiatrist. — Jerry Orange

Life is short, and therefore, one thing being certain, death, let us take up a great ideal, and give up the whole life to it. For what is the value of life, this vegetating little low life of man? Subordinating it to one high ideal is the only value that life has. — Swami Vivekananda

I was interested in becoming a show dancer, for which I tried, but I'm not tall enough. — Twyla Tharp

Actresses generally aren't allowed to have haircuts, because short hair isn't considered as versatile. — Rosamund Pike

Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow. — Ann Radcliffe

He stood looking straight at her. Their understanding was too offensively intimate, because they had never said a word to each other. — Ayn Rand

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment. — Edgar Allan Poe

We are every age we have ever been at each moment in our lives. We carry it all with us like luggage. — J.R. Ward

The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom. — Silvio Berlusconi

Sullivan hung at my shoulder. "Is she a student?"
"No." I brushed her hair out of her face. "Fix her."
He laughed, a little helplessly. "You have such faith in me. — Maggie Stiefvater