Nasioc Quotes & Sayings

Although Penzias and Wilson had not been looking for cosmic background radiation, didn't know what it was when they had found it, and hadn't described or interpreted its character in any paper, they received the 1978 Nobel Prize in physics. The Princeton researchers got only sympathy. According to Dennis Overbye in Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos, neither Penzias nor Wilson altogether understood the significance of what they had found until they read about it in the New York Times. — Bill Bryson

Hold fast," he called. "Tell me your names, and your stations."
"I am the Lady Door," said Door. "I am Portico's daughter, of the House of the Arch."
"I am Hunter. I am her bodyguard."
"Richard Mayhew," said Richard. "Wet. — Neil Gaiman

NDCC is an admirable job of amassing information to prove that communism is socialism and socialism (a plot to enslave the world) is not a movement of the downtrodden but a scheme supported and directed by the wealthiest of people. If enough Americans read and act upon NDCC, they really can save the Republic from the conspirators
whose plans for the destruction of our country are galloping fast toward completion. — Dan Smoot

To fail and persevere is a harder test than any you will meet on the practice-field. — Jacqueline Carey

It is a rare piece of legislation indeed where there is so much agreement about the goals. — Mike Pence

When people try to take [smoking] away from me I say, 'hey, I stopped everything else.' But, I have to battle that one, too. — Matthew Perry

I think I owe my life to cork soles. — Anthony Trollope

It was my idea that if you started any kind of business, you should begin somewhere near where you hoped to end. In other words, if I wanted to make really good clothes to order, I would start out making good, and therefore expensive, clothes to order. If I started making inexpensive clothes, I thought probably I'd die making them. — Elizabeth Hawes

If it means something, take it to heart. If it means nothing, it's nothing. Let it go. — Philippa Gregory

For Emerson, the value and distinction of transcendentalism was very much akin to this swerving and rolling away from acute definition. All the world is taken in through the eye, to reach the soul, where it becomes more, representative of a realm deeper than appearances: a realm ideal and sublime, the deep stillness that is, whose whole proclamation is the silence and the lack of material instance in which, patiently and radiantly, the universe exists. — Mary Oliver

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will. — Epictetus

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting. — Guido Molinari

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another. — Alexander Graham Bell

I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop imagining things and start writing towards these themes. — Joseph O'Neill