Magdalens Alterations Quotes & Sayings

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference. — Harry Truman

For most of my life, I have eaten to deal with stress. — Barney Frank

Men don't respond to words. What they respond to is "no contact". — Sherry Argov

Some of the greatest mathematical minds of all ages, from Pythagoras and Euclid in ancient Greece, through the medieval Italian mathematician Leonardo of Pisa and the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, to present-day scientific figures such as Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, have spent endless hours over this simple ratio and its properties. But the fascination with the Golden Ratio is not confined just to mathematicians. Biologists, artists, musicians, historians, architects, psychologists, and even mystics have pondered and debated the basis of its ubiquity and appeal. In fact, it is probably fair to say that the Golden Ratio has inspired thinkers of all disciplines like no other number in the history of mathematics. — Mario Livio

If you can't do it twice, you can't do it at all. — Orson Scott Card

Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. — Lee Strasberg

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes. — Tom Bissell

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success - and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear. — Marcia Conner

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow. — Jay Leno

As a rule of thumb, the hermaphrodite lifestyle works well if the prospects of finding a mate are slim, for example in low-density or immobile populations (explaining why many plants are hermaphrodites), while separate sexes develop in species with higher population densities or greater mobility. — Nick Lane

Probably, indeed, the larger part of the labor of an author composing his work is critical labor; the labor of sifting, combining, constructing, expunging, correcting, testing. This frightful toil is as much critical as creative. — T. S. Eliot

Henry Adams was scared shitless, politically, by the discovery that England isn't alien to a boy from Boston, but it was true, and it is true. It's a Boston and coastal Massachusetts thing. Henry Adams blocked it out. — William Monahan

A lot of times you talk about what you know, but since our reality is so difficult, its hard to think about travelling beyond the stars to another dimension - fantasy worlds - when, in reality, you can't get a job on Earth. — Kevin Grevioux

To not believe in God is to know that it falls to us to make the world a better place. — Sam Harris