Petrolejke Quotes & Sayings

Yes. Do you know people who are really nice, but when they get together with somebody in particular, they become obnoxious jerks? — Sheldon Siegel

I'm a human being and every human being has problems. — Jonathan Davis

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos. — Chuck Palahniuk

Actually I've never seen a cycle-maintenance problem complex enough really to require full-scale formal scientific method. Repair problems are not that hard. When I think of formal scientific method an image sometimes comes to mind of an enormous juggernaut, a huge bulldozer-slow, tedious, lumbering, laborious, but invincible. It takes twice as long, five times as long, maybe a dozen times as long as informal mechanic's techniques, but you know in the end you're going to get it. There's no fault isolation problem in motorcycle maintenance that can stand up to it. When you've hit a really tough one, tried everything, racked your brain and nothing works, and you know that this time Nature has really decided to be difficult, you say, "Okay, Nature, that's the end of the nice guy," and you crank up the formal scientific method. — Robert M. Pirsig

Screaming is bad for the voice, but it's good for the heart. — Conor Oberst

History is a wave that moves through time slightly faster than we do. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Curiosity makes loneliness. — Mason Cooley

To his family, Pasteur remarks in frustration, "How difficult it is to obtain the triumph of truth! Opposition is a useful stimulant, but bad faith is such a pitiable thing. How is it that they are not struck with the results shown by statistics? — Bill Wasik