Nhn Quotes & Sayings

The reason of idleness and of crime is the deferring of our hopes. Whilst we are waiting, we beguile the time with jokes, with sleep, with eating, and with crimes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I left my frogs, which I had grown, with my supervisor, who had moved to Geneva, and he and a technician grew them up. So by 1962, they were adults, and one could publish a paper to say that these animals, derived from nuclear transfer, really were absolutely normal. So it took a little time to get through. — John Gurdon

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest. — Muhammad Ali

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Although Salinger had long since cut me out of his life completely and made it plain that he had nothing but contempt for me, the thought of becoming the object of his wrath was more than I felt ready to take on. — Joyce Maynard

I concluded, that it was not a dream or a delusion or a misplaced memory or a fancy or any other falsity, but a solid, true thing witnessed while in a weakened highly agitated state. — Yann Martel

If there weren't blacks, Jews and gays, there would no Oscars. Or anyone named Oscar, if you think about that. — Ellen DeGeneres

No one can understand exactly what grief feels like for another person, because depending on your relationship to the deceased, you feel your grief differently from everyone else on the planet. -Hannah — Wendy Wunder

I didn't want to be a storyteller when I grew up; I wanted to be stuntman. — Chris Milk