Newseum Wall Quotes & Sayings

What I find to be very bad advice is the snappy little sentence, 'Write what you know.' It is the most tiresome and stupid advice that could possibly be given. If we write simply about what we know we never grow. We don't develop any facility for languages, or an interest in others, or a desire to travel and explore and face experience head-on. We just coil tighter and tighter into our boring little selves. What one should write about is what interests one. — Annie Proulx

Stubborness isn't a choice, it's a way of life. — G.R. Matthews

Newton was an unquestioning believer in an all-wise creator of the universe, and in his own inability - like the boy on the seashore - to fathom the entire ocean in all its depths. He therefore believed that there were not only many things in heaven beyond his philosophy, but plenty on earth as well, and he made it his business to understand for himself what the majority of intelligent men of his time accepted without dispute (to them it was as natural as common sense) - the traditional account of the creation. — Isaac Newton

Do not run from a battle with dragons; rather turn and face it. For even if you die, you die in glory. — J.J. Thompson

I'm very passionate about music and was excited to see that the majority of readers loved the inclusion of lyrics. — Colleen Hoover

This moment of lucidity does not last long. But it serves as the punishment for your sins, a Promethean entrails-pecking moment, crouching half-horse half-man, with the knowledge that you cannot appreciate the destination without knowing the starting point; you cannot revel in the simplicity unless you remember the alternatives.
And that's not the worst of your revelation. You realize that the next time you return here, with your thick horse brain, you won't have the capacity to ask to become a human again. You won't understand what a human is. Your choice to slide down the intelligence ladder is irreversible. And just before you lose your final human faculties, you painfully ponder what magnificent extraterrestrial creature, enthralled with the idea of finding a simpler life, chose in the last round to become a human. — David Eagleman

eats most of his meals — Gregory David Roberts

We're no longer in the Cold War. Eavesdropping on friends is unacceptable. — Vladimir Putin

I've always been a guy who likes to stretch my limits - to find out if I have any, really. — Daryl Hall

Progress in social psychology is necessary to counteract the dangers which arise from the progress in physics and medicine. — Erich Fromm

There are many examples that show that events with very small probability are not miraculous. In fact, they're commonplace. Mathematician J.E. Littlewood suggested that each one of us should expect one-in-a-million events to happen to us about once every month. Failing to recognize this is due to us ignoring the astronomically high number of events that occur which we find insignificant. Events that we do find significant, such as winning a lottery or dreaming about your mother calling you right before waking up to her call are just a tiny fraction of many other insignificant events with the same or even lower probability of occurring, such as the chance that you had a dream of your mother calling you and also running out of milk five days after at 7:21 am. — Armin Navabi

Excessive gentrification destroys the biodiversity and ecosystem of a community. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

No one cares what you ate for breakfast. Unless it's something really spectacular, don't tweet me your breakfast, I don't care. — Busy Philipps

Her fingertips rested on his cheek, like a constellation of unexpected kindness. — Tessa Dare

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."
Wizards don't giggle," I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling. — Jim Butcher