Melynn Sight Quotes & Sayings

Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies. — Dorothy Gilman

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. — William Butler Yeats

The scientific obligation is first to establish the cause of the disease beyond reasonable doubt. — Gary Taubes

Fantasy - and all fiction is fantasy of one kind or another - is a mirror. A distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty-five degrees to reality, but it's a mirror nonetheless, which we can use to tell ourselves things we might not otherwise see. (Fairy tales, as G. K Chesterton once said, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated.) — Neil Gaiman

For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God. — Elif Safak

More and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will. — Virginia Woolf

Every human being must have a point at which he stands against the culture, where he says, this is me and the damned world can go to hell. — Rollo May

Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations. — Stephen Harper

Grasp it all, don't be afraid, enjoy the bits you can and tell your family you love them while you have the chance. — Lynda Bellingham

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. — Alan King

Interesting people are interested in things other than themselves. They're educationally omnivorous. And so they end a lot of sentences with honest question marks. — Jessica Hagy

The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying. In other words, the truths of logic and mathematics are analytic propositions or tautologies. — A.J. Ayer