Omnivorously Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I loved the disruptive student in class who livened up lectures with wisecracks - it put a spin on things, added flavor, made me laugh. Other times, I wished the heckler would just shut up so I could learn something. — Kaui Hart Hemmings

But more than 15 sections in Chapter 8 of the report-the key chapter setting out the scientific evidence for and against a human influence over the climate-were changed or deleted after the scientist charged with examining this question had accepted the supposedly final text ... — Frederick Seitz

Foster always said that education was very important, but that it didn't really matter, because intelligence was more important than that, and that even intelligence didn't count for so much, that wisdom was far more important still. He said he had no idea in the world whether you had education or intelligence or wisdom and that it couldn't matter less, a blind man could see that you had a good heart, and the good heart was all that mattered in this world. — Alistair MacLean

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail. — Samuel Chase

When you're dancing the mystical dance of the molecules, you're not the one who's leading. — Jane Wagner

All at once I saw that the sun was round! Since then I have been the happiest man on Earth! — Frederick Franck

I enjoy playing characters where I get to sort of change my look, my voice. It's not about what she wears, it's about what she's got inside. — Linda Cardellini

The dark, uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed. — Randall Jarrell

With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me. — Aldous Huxley

I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves — Henry David Thoreau

The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It's perceived as an accolade to be published as a 'literary' writer, but, actually, it's pompous and it's fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. — Neil Cross

And ne er did Grecian chisel trace A Nymph, a naiad or a grace Of finer form or lovelier face ... — Walter Scott

It is the test of a novel writer's art that he conceal his snake-in-the-grass; but the reader may be sure that it is always there. — Anthony Trollope

Talkin bout money we could have a conversation Top five tax bracket in the population — Nicki Minaj

One thing must be emphatically stated. The New Testament books did not become authoritative for the Church because they were formally included in a canonical list; on the contrary, the Church included them in her canon because she already regarded them as divinely inspired, recognizing their innate worth and generally apostolic authority, direct or indirect. — F.F. Bruce

Truth, at the wrong time, can be dangerous. — Michael Ondaatje