Middlesex Meaningful Quotes & Sayings

I hung up again and looked at Katz. What is it with this town? I've blown more intelligent life into a handkerchief. — Bill Bryson

Truth is better for humanity than ignorance, lies, or spin. And it's more interesting. — Steve Sailer

Science has so accustomed us to devising and accepting theories to account for the facts we observe, however fantastic, that our minds must begin their manufacture before we are aware of it. — Gene Wolfe

I acted in theater and I took film classes when I was 12 and just obsessed over it. I loved it and spent hours and hours in the film studio learning and watching. — Mary Elizabeth Winstead

Crunches only go so deep. — Miranda Lambert

Let every man look before he leaps. — Miguel De Cervantes

There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes. — John Logie Baird

Not merely a nation but a nation of nations. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal. — Vijender Singh

I don't know what a painting is; who knows what sets off even the desire to paint? It might be things, thoughts, a memory, sensations, which have nothing to do directly with painting itself. They can come from anything and anywhere. — Philip Guston

I've come to believe that the function of torture in our society is not about getting information, in spite of what we might want to believe. It is merely about power. It tells the world that there is now no limit to what we will do when we feel threatened. — Nick Flynn

I'm doing everything I can to sabotage my career. It's a little thing called "fear of success". — Jon Stewart