Perron Quotes & Sayings

[ ... ] a view that we call "scientism" : and that is that science is the only way to truth, now that is just logically false, because the statement "science is the only way to truth" is not a statement of science, so if it's true, it's false. Perhaps it's too late at night for logic like that is it ?
[watch?v=lf1T8ouVQ-g - 14m50] — John C. Lennox

I was working in Chicago, in theater and in commercials and anything that anybody would let me do. When I moved to L.A., I had made a choice to be a character actor, meaning that I wanted to become somebody else. That's what attracted me to becoming an actor in the first place. — Janina Gavankar

We Communists have to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. — Leonid Brezhnev

I overcome failure by doing it again and trying not to make the same mistake. — Guy Burnet

We practical men like to see things, not to read about them. — Oscar Wilde

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature." Frank Lloyd Wright — Andrea Perron

People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver. — George Carlin

Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. — John Milton

Every time that I've won a championship I've looked at my guys around me and looked at their work ethic and said 'You know what, I'm going to win it this year. I feel that way now. — Shaquille O'Neal

There is not less wit nor invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent. — Pierre Bayle

I've got eighteen-year-old twins that need to go to college, so there's still a financial issue, but I could retire tomorrow and just count ducks by the side of the lake, and that would be just fine by me. I'm not a high-energy guy. — Jonathan Banks

Our passions don't just compel us; they can also heal us. — Diane Guerrero

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? — Emile M. Cioran

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. — Alan Furst

What is a false idol? What you think love will get you. — Mari Perron

I have notebooks and sketchbooks for ideas. I also have drawers full of envelopes covered in quick outlines, scenes or scraps of dialogue that I don't want to forget. I tend to grab whatever's to hand and just get the thing down before it's lost. It's not what you would call a streamlined system. — Steven Hall

Really, the only way to face the biggest problems we have is for the government to change the way they subsidize food. The way we subsidize food makes it cheaper to go to McDonald's and get a hamburger than a salad, and that's insane. — Ruth Reichl