Octagon Area Quotes & Sayings

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality. — Sam Abell

[T]he true natural sciences lock together in theory and evidence to form the ineradicable technical base of modern civilization. The pseudosciences satisfy personal psychological needs ... but lack the ideas or the means to contribute to the technical base. — E. O. Wilson

I have a needle being stuck into my spine, can anyone please define "a little pain"? — Pandora Poikilos

Remember even when alone, that the divine is everywhere. — Confucius

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds which follows from the advance of science. — Charles Darwin

I think we're going to have some difficulty in front of us. I have absolutely no doubt the next three, four years Europe are going to be at best stagnation. We are preparing for tough times. — Carlos Ghosn

When a couple turns domestic, for the first while having to talk about the need for aluminum eaves troughing and other matters only gets in the way of the relationship. Then, magically, these negotiations take the place of the relationship. — Marni Jackson

After all the fears, the warnings, after all, a woman's mistakes are different from a girl's. They are written by fire on stone. They are a trait and not an error. — Janet Fitch

When's the last time you walked by a pub in Dublin and heard Irish music? When's the last time you ordered a coffee and heard an Irish accent? — Michael Flatley

I work either way, you see - assisted or unassisted - because that is what you must do in order to live a fully creative life. I work steadily, and I always thank the process. Whether I am touched by grace or not, I thank creativity for allowing me to engage with it at all. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I haven't done anything--yet. — William Dean Howells

Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting. — Shuji Nakamura

Man is so wretched that, while directing all his conduct towards satisfying his passions, he constantly moans about their tyranny: he cannot bear their violence, nor the violence he must use against himself in order to free himself from their yoke; he finds them disgusting, but so too their remedies, and he cannot come to terms with the pain of his illness, nor with the labour necessary for a cure. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld