Lumbrera Quite Decir Quotes & Sayings

I've always been suspicious of the assumption that great intelligence would be an unqualified benefit - that the madness that so often accompanies it can be cavalierly dismissed. So I asked the question: Suppose there were an entire subpopulation of extreme geniuses, well beyond anything that would occur naturally. What would that really look like? — Andrew M. Ryan

We're trying to get to the bottom of where the picture came from, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what it's of and who it's of. — Anthony Weiner

I had a great time doing 'Torchwood,' I really did. — Burn Gorman

I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination? — Jane Campion

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. — Hortense Calisher

Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth. — Thomas Carlyle

Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving ... conflict is a sine qua non of reflection and ingenuity. — John Dewey

The best thing about science is that hard, empirical answers are always there if you look hard enough. The best thing about religion is that the very absence of that certainty is what requires - and gives rise to - deep feelings of faith. — Jeffrey Kluger

I think I'm still chewing on my years as a foreign correspondent. I found myself covering catastrophes - war, uprising, famine, refugee crises - and witnessing how people were affected by dire situations. When I find a story from the past, I bring some of those lessons to bear on the narrative. — Geraldine Brooks

I became a big Kings fan, and then later on my hometown of Ottawa got a team, so then I was very, very torn. I just love both of those teams very much. — Matthew Perry

To drink champagne with a blonde at one elbow and a brunette at the other gives a man a sense of well-being, and — Rex Stout

I don't believe in vengeance. Really, when all is said and done, I probably don't believe in punishment. — Penn Jillette

Take male strategies for success in the world. If you've got all the advantages, if you're attractive and clever and all of that, you will generally go for very high quality females. — Susan Blackmore