Lintels For Sale Quotes & Sayings

I was teaching introductory geology at Caltech for the first time. I'm not a geologist. I've never taken a single class in geology. If you gave me a handful of different types of rocks, chances are I could identify only a small number of them. I still get confused by the meanings of strike and dip. Luckily, most of my students didn't realize this. — Mike Brown

The people who think a guy walked on water versus the people who think a horse can fly. — Scott Adams

He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot. — Leonardo Da Vinci

You can also make explicit certain social problems which, again, would be prejudged or not encountered at all in real life, because people have set up defenses against it. Fantasy allows you to get past defenses. — Elizabeth Moon

And if I tried
to give you something else,
something outside myself,
you would not know
that the worst of anyone
can be, finally,
an accident of hope — Anne Sexton

If you love people, you'll enjoy your life. If you don't, you won't love anything you do. — Bernie Siegel

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage. — George Bernard Shaw

Why is it so hard to say good-bye to something even when you know it's a slow-growing cancer? — Koren Zailckas

Even if you do succeed most people wouldn't notice anyway. — John Malkovich

My mother was an opera singer and my grandmother a concert pianist, and they only liked classical music. If I put on a pop record, they would tell me to turn it off, so I only listen to classical. — Amanda Eliasch

(From the story The Last Days of a Famous Mime)
He said nothing. He was mildly annoyed at her presumption: that he had not thought this many, many times before.
With perfect misunderstanding she interpreted his passivity as disdain.
Wishing to hurt him, she slapped his face.
Wishing to hurt her, he smiled brilliantly. — Peter Carey

Beck with a determined look in my eye. — James Patterson

It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. — C.L.R. James