Pachyderms Wiki Quotes & Sayings

Any comparison diminishes the expressive qualities of the terms of the comparison. — Gaston Bachelard

His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy. — David B. Dacosta

Thank you and good luck! — Julian Hulse

You've gotta talk without speaking/
cry without weeping/
scream without raising your voice — U2

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Software engineering has this in common with having children: the labor before the birth is painful and difficult, but the labor after the birth is where you actually spend most of your effort. Yet — Betsy Beyer

In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors on their doorsteps. It's a war, and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors. — Tim Daly

Memory has a spottiness, as if the film was sprinkled with developer instead of immersed in it. — John Updike

He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine. — Kahlil Gibran

For Mum, life was fundamentally hell. You went blind, you got raped, people forgot your birthday, Nixon got elected, your husband fled with a blonde from Beckenham, and then you got old, you couldn't walk and you died. — Hanif Kureishi

Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes. — Vincent Van Gogh

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not Guilty'. — Theodore Roosevelt

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way. — Steve Wozniak

The earth's weight has been estimated at six sextillion tons (that's a six with twenty-one zeros). Yet it is perfectly balanced and turns easily on its axis. It rotates daily at the rate of more than a thousand miles per hour, or 25,000 miles each day. This adds up to nine million miles a year. Considering the tremendous weight of six sextillion tons rolling at this fantastic speed around an invisible axis, held in place by unseen bands of gravitation, the words of Job 26:7 take on unparalleled significance: He poised the earth on nothingness. — Brennan Manning