Nautiluses Quotes & Sayings

Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join. — Alexander Pope

It is a popular error that bureaucracy is less flexible than private enterprise. It may be so in detail, but when large scale adaptations have to be made, central control is far more flexible. It may take two months to get an answer to a letter from a government department, but it takes twenty years for an industry under private enterprise to readjust itself to a fall in demand. — Joan Robinson

I avoided reality for most of my life. But once you deal with it, it's kind of cool. — Roseanne Barr

Basie would lie on the mattress and talk endlessly, sometimes drinking from a bottle of Murree's whisky he'd bring with him, bought from one of the clandestine bars in Heer where there were locked cages for female drinkers, to prevent them from being sexually assaulted by the inebriated male clientele, as well as to stop the drunk women from killing every man in sight. — Nadeem Aslam

Robert Frost had always said you mustn't think of the last line first, or it's only a fake poem, not a real one. I'm inclined to agree. — Howard Nemerov

I don't devalue comedy as compared to drama. Not one bit. — Ben Stiller

Please keep watching rhythmic gymnastics in spite of its situation. If you quit watching it, rhythmic gymnastics will not exist any longer. Your eyes are much more important than judge's are. — Teodora Alexandrova

To heal divisions, to relieve the oppress'd, In virtue rich; in blessing others, bless'd. — Homer

We've had nothing but support from everybody in the dance world for a National Dance Day. — Nigel Lythgoe

Most people ... are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can't handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward. — Edward De Bono

Many love stories are like the shells of hermit crabs, though others are more like chambered nautiluses, whose architecture grows with the inhabitant and whose abandoned smaller chambers are lighter than water and let them float in the sea. — Rebecca Solnit

The more contact we have with one another and the more we come to understand each other's values, the greater will be our mutual respect. — Dalai Lama

It was a heartwarming peaceful place until I arrived and wrote it differently. — Eri Nelson

He had entered Parmenides' magic field: he was enjoying the sweet lightness of being. — Milan Kundera

Ballimore! Ballimore, where's the inkwell?' Dobbilan's voice echoed down the corridor, interrupting Cimorene in mid-sentence. 'Where are you? Why can't I find anything around here when I want it?'
'Because you never look in the right place, dear,' Ballimore called. 'The inkwell is in the kitchen next to the grocery list, where it's been for the past six months, and I'm in the dining room. Which is where you'd be if you'd done what I asked you to, instead of wandering off in all directions. — Patricia C. Wrede

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho. — Joakim Noah