Lumacon Quotes & Sayings

One ventures, commits one's self, and if readers are not pleased, one can perhaps please one's self and earn that slender right to persevere. — Marianne Moore

This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close, and large near things appear very small, and how we may make small things placed at a distance appear any size we want, so that it may be possible for us to read the smallest letters at incredible distances, or to count sand, or seed, or any sort or minute objects. — Robert Grosseteste

Well, I'd like to think I am, and I'd also like to think that we're all having a lot more fun getting older than we pretend. It was interesting to me when I first started working on this book that I'd mentioned that I was writing a memoir about aging and everybody would moan and groan and carry on. — Anna Quindlen

Even before the agricultural revolution began in the Fertile Crescent about 10,000 years ago, humans had learned how to work with new technology. Those who could not or would not eventually became priests, politicians, and bureaucrats. — G. Harry Stine

But such a person also has that annoying voice in the back of her head constantly reminding her that merely "coasting by" in life isn't an accomplishment. — Dawn Dais

Surprise jolted through me. He only called me Ryan when he was taunting me. And right now he was taunting me about sucking his dick. Jesus. My bravado faltered, just for a second. Until I saw his pulse hammering in the hollow of his throat, and realized he was as nervous and excited as I was. I took a breath and lowered my head. Then I closed my mouth over his swollen tip and sucked. Jamie's hips snapped up instantly, his breath leaving his throat on a ragged shudder. "Oh Jesus. — Sarina Bowen

I played Iris Murdoch, who had not long died, and I felt the responsibility very heavy on my shoulders. — Judi Dench

My cat's fully capable of speaking, but he says he's afraid of me turning it into a Kevin James vehicle. — Andy Kindler

Your life depends entirely on your reactions to the accountability that you are faced with. — Stephen Richards

If you do not exclude them, in less than 200 years our descendants will be working in the fields to furnish them substance, while they will be in the counting houses rubbing their hands. I warn you, gentlemen, if you do not exclude Jews for all time, your children will curse you in your graves. — Benjamin Franklin

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday. That time is age 11. — Dave Barry

If you can live well and be happy without causing unnecessary harm, why wouldn't you? — Gene Baur

Grief she could not feel, for there had been too much bitterness between her mother and herself to leave in her heart any deep feeling of affection; and looking back on the girl she had been she knew that it was her mother who had made her what she was. — W. Somerset Maugham

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice. — Ambrose Bierce