Odrobinak Quotes & Sayings

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. — Chester W. Nimitz

Heaven is a dream of Disneyland for those unable to act here on Earth. — Samantha Hunt

Not everyone has the survival skills of William Jefferson Clinton. — Tina Brown

We have progressed so far that we have succeeded in tearing the atom apart; but to reach that point we may also have had to regress in our moral vision of the physical world to a level barely above the insentient. — David Bentley Hart

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn't add new and useful information, it should be removed. — Kurt Vonnegut

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder. — Rudolf Carnap

I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature. — Albert Einstein

With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension. — Adrian McKinty

Writing is such lonely work that I try to keep myself cheered up. If something strikes me as funny in the act of writing, I throw it in just to amuse myself. If I think it's funny I assume a few other people will find it funny, and that seems to me to be a good day's work. — William Zinsser