Mastbeugel Quotes & Sayings

Life has no limits. We are limited by our expectations. — Debasish Mridha

I've always thought of myself as a realist. I can remember fighting with my professors about it in grad school. The world that I live in consists of 250 advertisements a day and any number of unbelievably entertaining options, most of which are subsidized by corporations that want to sell me things. The whole way that the world acts on my nerve endings is bound up with stuff that the guys with the leather patches on their elbows would consider pop or trivial or ephemeral. I use a fair amount of pop stuff in my fiction, but what I mean by it is nothing different than what other people mean in writing about trees and parks and having to walk to the river to get water 100 years ago. It's just the texture of the world I live in. — David Foster Wallace

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. — James Dyson

My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. — Gregory Benford

I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would make life too dull for me as a scientist ... I hope, and believe, that the Space Telescope might make the Big Bang cosmology appear incorrect to future generations, perhaps somewhat analogous to the way that Galileo's telescope showed that the earth-centered, Ptolemaic system was inadequate. — John N. Bahcall

The famous physician Dumoulin said when dying, 'I leave two great physicians behind me, simple food and pure water.' — Voltaire

Mess with nature and it will mess right back ... — Anita Roddick

Lampard's not the first player to run to the crowd with lips over his mouth. — Adrian Chiles

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe. — Rene Girard

The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces - those, I think, are the sensations of grief. — Catherynne M Valente