Obelisque Quotes & Sayings

The only thing I wanted in free agency was an opportunity to continue to chase that dream and continue to win championships.? — Tyson Chandler

For the man on the street, science and math sound too and soulless. It is hard to appreciate their significance Most of us are just aware of Newton's apple trivia and Einstein's famous e mc2. Science, like philosophy, remains obscure and detached, playing role in our daily lives. There is a general perception that science is hard to grasp and has direct relevance to what we do. After all, how often do we discuss Dante or Descartes over dinner anyway? Some feel it to be too academic and leave it to the intellectuals or scientists to sort out while others feel that such topics are good only for academic debate. The great physicist, Rutherford, once quipped that, "i you can't explain a complex theory to a bartender, the theory not worth it" Well, it could be easier said than done (applications of tools — Sharad Nalawade

To have once been a criminal is no disgrace. To remain a criminal is the disgrace — Malcolm X

Hell's put in a skating rink," Shane said. "This is actually edible, Eve. — Rachel Caine

The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken. — Roland Barthes

If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you've been broken. — Jane Fonda

If I met Abraham, I would honor him,
if met Moses, I would praise him,
If I met Jesus, I would bow to Him,
if I met Caesar, I would conquer him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I like how you're neither here nor there. And how there's nowhere else you're meant to be while waiting. You're just sort of suspended. — Jennifer E. Smith

JULY 20. I've just walked into the opera house. I have no programme. Strange new players are premiering a piece by a flamboyant new composer. Front and centre, three, maybe four, whales begin - a swelling string section - discordant, irresolute harmonies fill the concert hall. Then two more whales, stage right, come in, playing eight octave clarinets, counterpointing the string section. And then they, too, are counterpointed by occasional glissando slurs and passages played pizzicato by whales at the rear of the stage. But suddenly, a programme change: The orchestra members switch clothes and pull new instruments from their cases. The French horn players begin wailing on shiny, sleazy saxophones. The trumpeters spit rapid-fire bursts into an underwater echo chamber - the deep, rocky corridor of Johnstone Strait. — Erich Hoyt

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. — Bruce Lee

I think myself that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious. Government big enough to supply everything you need is big enough to take everything you have ... The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first. — Thomas Jefferson

Just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is. — Stephen Chbosky

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms. — Pope Francis

Throughout my entire miserable childhood I woke at least once a night weeping from overwhelming delight. I did it hungry, I did it after beatings, I did it after the deaths of loved ones.
Now you tell me if I'm crazy or if I've always been blessed. — Bob Thurber

In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not. — T. S. Eliot