Patlang Quotes & Sayings

Los Angeles: city that was nothing but a slot machine dispensing plastic toys. — Marge Piercy

Just keep going - no feeling is final. — Rainer Maria Rilke

If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory. — Jefferson Davis

My worthy friend, gray are all theories
And green alone Life's golden tree. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A man is valued by how sincere he is, and a man is also valued by how much he knows. But if a man knows nothing, he will be regarded a fool, no matter how sincere he is. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the artist by reason of what he has, or has not, artistically dared. — Salman Rushdie

I've learned that your intuition about things you don't know that much about isn't very good," Page said. "The way Elon talks about this is that you always need to start with the first principles of a problem. What are the physics of it? How much time will it take? How much will it cost? How much cheaper can I make it? There's this level of engineering and physics that you need to make judgments about what's possible and interesting. Elon is unusual in that he knows that, and he also knows business and organization and leadership and governmental issues. — Ashlee Vance

I've always been told that women know everything. Is that not accurate? — Steve Berry

My son, Gio, wanted to do a horseback trip in Mongolia, but he didn't want to do an Abercrombie & Fitch-type tour, where they show you around while you sleep in B&Bs. — John Fusco