Nebezpec Quotes & Sayings

For anyone who wants to understand the art of storytelling, this film [The Hunt for Red October] should suffice; one wonders why universities persist in teaching narrative principles on the basis of Propp, Greimas or other such punishing curricula, instead of investing in a projection room. Premise, plot, protagonists, adventures, quest, heroes and other stimulants: all you need is Sean Connery in the uniform of a Russian submarine officer and a few well-placed aircraft carriers. — Muriel Barbery

OBSERVATORY, n. A place where astronomers conjecture away the guesses of their predecessors. — Ambrose Bierce

For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith. — Robert Macfarlane

Vipassana arises as you pay awareness to the inner and outer experience unfolding at the present moment. Vipassana is not associated with any rigid formula or methods. Whenever you are aware of your mental or physical feelings like tension in the muscles, movement of limbs, stiffness, heat or cold, you have begun to develop special understanding of realities. — Amit Ray

Sunshine is more health-giving than pills and potions: and travel in foreign lands is a mental tonic, which feeds the mind even if it empties the pocket. — Alec-Tweedie

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. — Sarah Orne Jewett

I have a producer friend who despairs that I come across as rather frosty and never show the real me, and she might have a point. — Mariella Frostrup

If you don't let a teacher know what level you are
by asking a question, or revealing your ignorance
you will not learn or grow — Stephen R. Covey

Those who have teachable spirit get wiser and wiser daily. — Euginia Herlihy

The opposition to teaching evolution is, of course, almost always given a religious reason. That may usually be its real basis, but I think it is often a mask, perhaps unconscious, for underlying anti-intellectualism or antiscientism. — George Gaylord Simpson

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant. — Ralph Waldo Emerson