Napiers Rod Quotes & Sayings

It's absolutely impossible to have a serious critical discussion about enthusiasms for movie stars. Because a movie star is an animal separate from acting. Sometimes, he or she is a great actor. Sometimes a third-rate one. But the star is something that you fall in love with ... — Peter Biskind

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong. — Shelley Duvall

There is usually a moment in the life of a new president when he begins to see himself not as an aspirant desperate to win but as a statesman above the squalor and sweat of actual vote getting. Rising men do not like to be reminded of the smell of the stables; dignitaries dislike recollections of the dust through which they have come. — Jon Meacham

Pride is a fallacy. None of us are greater than the sum of our parts. — Eric Hirzel

Beethoven I take twice a week, Haydn four times, and Mozart every day. — Gioachino Rossini

I really enjoyed Princeton as a graduate student. — Brian Kernighan

I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad. — Grace Jones

Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone ... all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as the ever-cooling background. At that time, space travel will no longer provide refuge because even Hell will have frozen over. We may then declare that the universe has died-not with a bang, but with a whimper. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did. — Matthew Rhys

I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action - as we'd say in Scotland. — Shirley Manson

A poem is a construction of inner space.
Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts

We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love ... and then we return home. - Australian Aboriginal Proverb — A.B. Shepherd

I have heard that it was the perfection of the administration of criminal justice to take care that the punishment should come to few and the example to many. — Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon

Young sailors once stood under a square sail, gazing wonderingly across the water to where a strange shore rose about the sea - a New World. — Helge Ingstad

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural. — Leo Buscaglia