Paulings Quotes & Sayings

Officious, innocent, sincere, Of every friendless name the friend. — Samuel Johnson

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other. — Michel Gondry

Why do we so mindlessly abuse our planet, our only home? The answer to that lies in each of us. Therefore, we will strive to bring about understanding that we are
each one of us
responsible for more than just ourselves, our family, our football team, our country, or our own kind; that there is more to life than just these things. That each one of us must also bring the natural world back into its proper place in our lives, and realize that doing so is not some lofty ideal but a vital part of our personal survival. — Lawrence Anthony

Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness. — Jerry Saltz

They knew each other very well
so well that they could sit now in that soothing silence which is the very highest development of companionship. — Arthur Conan Doyle

As we love more genuinely and deeply, giving becomes the obvious and natural response. — Francis Chan

Before the discovery of agriculture mankind was everywhere so divided, the size of each group being determined by the natural fertility of its locality. — Arthur Keith

Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander

I don't like people who are hypocritical, who pretend to be nice, particularly in show business when they're nice on camera, and then off camera they're absolutely appalling to the makeup people, or the waitress in a restaurant, you know? I don't like - I can't bear those kind of people. So I like people who are, you know, up front in your face. — Simon Cowell

Ten more minutes of walking, he guessed, and the bridge seemed to be no nearer. He was too cold to shiver. His eyes hurt. This was not simply cold: this was science fiction. This was a story set on the dark side of Mercury, back when they thought Mercury had a dark side. This was somewhere out on rocky Pluto, where the sun is just another star, shining only a little more brightly in the darkness. This, thought Shadow, is justm a jhair away from places where air comes in buckets and pours just like beer. — Neil Gaiman