Oscilloscope Online Quotes & Sayings

Ironically, the first full Baskerville biography published by CUP in 1907 was printed in Caslon — Simon Garfield

Come on, the all-knowing cait sith has returned, and we've been ordered to move out.

-Ash to Ariella — Julie Kagawa

I feel the same truth how often in my trivial conversation with my neighbours, that somewhat higher in each of us overlooks this by-play, and Jove nods to Jove from behind each of us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The simplest and the most incredible thing in the world had come true again: two people speaking to each other, each for himself; and sounds, called words, shaped the same images and feelings in that palpitating mass behind the skull, and out of meaningless vibrations of the vocal chords and their unexplainable reactions in the viscous gray convolutions, skies suddenly grew again in which were mirrored clouds, brooks, past times, growth and decay and hard-won wisdom. — Erich Maria Remarque

Science is all metaphor. — Timothy Leary

As Benjamin Franklin said, 'Those things that hurt, instruct.' It is for this reason that wise people learn not to dread but actually to welcome problems and actually to welcome the pain of problems. — M. Scott Peck

Success is transient; value is eternal. — Debasish Mridha

Ther's no great banquet but some fares ill. — George Herbert

I don't have many friends, but I think you're one of them. And friends don't send friends to get their souls sucked out. — Alexis Hall

It's scandalous when one thinks about the people who live in a world in which they need not be hungry, in which they need not die without medical care, in which they need not be illiterate, they need not feel hopeless and miserable so much of the time, and yet they are. — Amartya Sen

What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs. — John W. Dower

She awoke from a long childhood in which she had always been protected and surrounded by attention and comforts, with no responsibilities. — Isabel Allende

We should no longer seek to have Budget surplus by end of Parliament. We should avoid tax rises. — Theresa May