Magdikit Ng Quotes & Sayings

We necessarily sift a great many pebbles, much sand, for each nugget - but the nuggets are the reward. — Robert A. Heinlein

This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen, — J.K. Rowling

There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created. — Nicolas Steno

Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple - these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat. — Vladimir Nabokov

No one gives it to you. You have to take it. — Frank Costello

Stories are the things that allow us to persuade each other that we're human. — Neil Gaiman

I picked up the phone, 'Hello?'
'Merry Christmas!' said Mom and Dad.
...
'I love you too' I replied. I hung up the phone. My students were gaping at me. Two girls in the back row brushed away tears and hugged each other. Parents and children rarely said those three words in China. They knew their parents loved them, but they knew from their actions, not because they had ever been told. The students had studied and heard about the importance of family at Christmas, but with that telephone call they saw it for themselves. — Aminta Arrington

Every time you see me that Hammer's just so hype
I'm dope on the floor and I'm magic on the mic — MC Hammer

But when you don't follow them up with any action, they're completely pointless. They're just sounds and syllables. But they mean absolutely nothing. — J. Sterling

And here's my advice to you. If you get the chance of the mad kind of love, grab it with both hands, and to hell with the consequences. — Ken Follett

But perhaps we can grant that something happens when the thinking mind takes a vacation. Absence of verbal thought or day-dreaming clearly doesn't mean torpor and vacuity. Rather, it's as if the seat of consciousness escapes from its jumpy, nervous, verbal isolation cell and takes residence in some other section of the theater, where the lights shine more brightly and where things feel more direct, more real. On what street is this theater found? Where are the sensations of life? — Robert Lanza

Actually not bad at all. Tastes minty, very refreshing."
"A worthy epitaph," said Jean — Scott Lynch

The problem was to get judges who were not afraid to prosecute Saddam despite intimidation and threats. — Hoshyar Zebari

He who was given the freedom to ask whatever should give the freedom to be answered however. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Once the two of you come together, even the devil himself will be running for cover.
- The Duke of Traherne — Diana Quincy