Linscott Quotes & Sayings

To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. — Tom Wicker

True hope dwells on the possible, even when life seems to be a plot written by someone who wants to see how much adversity we can overcome. — Walter Inglis Anderson

For instance, Visser, the Dutchman, had sold German machine guns to the Chinese, spied for the Japanese and served a term of imprisonment for killing a coolie in Batavia. He was not an easy man to handle. — Eric Ambler

There are foods that accelerate aging and entropy, and others that renew and revitalise the body. — Deepak Chopra

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?"
"Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers! — Groucho Marx

LINSCOTT: Well, I don't like it. Man works damn hard, leaves his wife all his money, and some pretty boy comes along and gets it. Sometimes I think those old East Indians had the right idea about widows. Cremate the husbands and burn up the wives along with them.
CONNIE: Maybe it would be simpler to burn up the money. — Dorothy Parker

The future is another story! said the author. — Connie Chappell

Nicotinic receptors are so named because they respond to nicotine, whether smoked or chewed, and they're spread throughout the brain. For all the problems it causes to our overall health, it's well established that nicotine can improve the rate of signal detection when a person has been misdirected - that is, nicotine creates a state of vigilance that allows one to become more detail oriented and less dependent on top-down expectations. — Daniel J. Levitin

LINSCOTT: Well, life certainly treats you fine.
CONNIE: No, Tom. Life and I go Dutch. — Dorothy Parker

It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience. — Gillian Linscott

The more you start to love someone, the more you ache when they're gone, and maybe it's that middle ground that hurts the most, when you can see them and still not feel like you're near enough. — Robin Benway

Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches. — Anonymous