Mollifying Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Omnivorous red devils with a vicious bite, they have denuded the ground surrounding their hill, destroying everything green and living within a radius of ten feet. I cannot resist the impulse to shove my walking stick into the bowels of their hive and rowel things up. Don't actually care for ants. Neurotic little pismires. Compared to ants the hairy scorpion is a beast of charm, dignity and — Edward Abbey

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other. — Emile Zola

It just makes more sense if you base your personal life logic on science. — Steve Merrick

Science isn't just for scientists - it's not just a training for careers. — Martin Rees

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers. — Dale Carnegie

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons. — S. S. Van Dine

Knowledge work is not defined by quantity. Neither is knowledge work defined by its costs. Knowledge work is defined by its results. — Peter F. Drucker

If you wanted to see into the future, you just had to look to the past. Reaching — Matthew Mather

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses. — Thomas Heatherwick

Through the years I have seen myself as a peaceful person, but the awareness of the anger is part of that process. — Yusef Komunyakaa

Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car? — Socrates

When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say. — Eddie Rickenbacker

My hands are huge. When I was on 'Scrubs,' Zach Braff used to make fun of them all the time. And now I made some list. I guess Jennifer Garner is on the top of the list for best hands and I'm fourth down. But that's for people who really like an NBA star's hands. — Eliza Coupe

In literature it is only the wild that attracts us. — Henry David Thoreau

On New York subways in the 1980s: Riding on the IRT is usually a matter of serving time in one of the city's most squalid environments-noisy, smelly, crowded and overrun with a ceaseless supply of graffiti. — Paul Goldberger