Melandric Quotes & Sayings

The sizzle I felt being near him was so intense, but I couldn't figure out if they were fireworks or warning flares. — Donna Augustine

I had enough trouble not falling down when the ground was dry; it might be safer for me to go back to bed now. — Stephenie Meyer

What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the Second World War with the evaporation of the European community of scientists and physicians that did pioneering work in those disciplines. It has since resisted all attempts to correct it. As a result, the individuals involved in this research have not only wasted decades of time, and effort, and money but have done incalculable damage along the way. Their beliefs have remained imperious to an ever-growing body of evidence that refutes them while being embraced by public-health authorities and translated into precisely the wrong advice about what to eat and, more important, what not to eat if we want to maintain a healthy weight and live a long and healthy life. — Gary Taubes

I'm afraid for all those who'll have the bread snatched from their mouths by these machines. What business has science and capitalism got, bringing all these new inventions into the works, before society has produced a generation educated up to using them! — Henrik Ibsen

Economics is like gravity: Ignore it and you will be in for some rude surprises. — Charles Wheelan

I want to get non-aerosol mace, you just rub it in. "Dude who is attacking me - come a little closer!" — Mitch Hedberg

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber. — Chris LeDoux

It is amazing how many people act as if the right to free speech includes the right to be free of criticism for what you say - which means that other people should not have the same right to free speech that they claim for themselves. — Thomas Sowell

New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be. — Siri Hustvedt

The Morning After Coffee Bar was different from the mass-produced coffee bars that had mushroomed on every street almost everywhere, a development which presaged the flattening effects of globalisation; the spreading, under a cheerful banner, of a sameness that threatened to weaken and destroy all sense of place. — Alexander McCall Smith

All the geniuses and greats are really just nerds with experience. — A.D. Posey

I will never understand why you Humans weren't designed to recycle your body's water after filtering waste. It's just so much more efficient. — Bryan Fields

They maintain this guilty, defiant refusal to engage: I know you're out there; I know it's awful and I'm safe inside, but I suffered too, so let me just read my Kindle without bloody guilt-tripping me, OK? — Sophie Kinsella