Peura From Ayer Quotes & Sayings

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"
the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved. — Honore De Balzac

Whoever has character also has his typical experience, which returns over and over again. — Friedrich Nietzsche

She suddenly thought one afternoon, when looking in the glass at her fairness, that there was yet another date, of greater importance to her than those; that of her own death, when all these charms would have disappeared; a day which lay sly and unseen and among all the other days of the year, giving no sign or sound when she annually passed over it; but not the less surely there. When was it? Why did she not feel the chill of each yearly encounter with such a cold relation? — Thomas Hardy

But what if someone kills somebody else?"
Gurgeh shrugged. "They're slap-droned."
"Ah! This sounds more like it. What does that drone do?"
"Follows you around and makes sure you never do it again."
"Is that all?"
"What more do you want? Social death, Hamin; you don't get invited to too many parties."
"Ah; but in your Culture, can't you gatecrash?"
"I suppose so," Gurgeh conceded. "But nobody'd talk to you. — Iain M. Banks

The work of creation is never without travail. — T. S. Eliot

I never practice before, I never work hours on a script. I just choose my characters and trust them, and after that, it's about the director taking your hand. — Melanie Laurent

Two nations divided by a common language. — Winston Churchill

She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians. — Jodi Picoult

I have my own publishing company called 'I Am McLovin Publishing.' — Teyana Taylor

Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also. — Dalai Lama

Alan Turing gave us a mathematical model of digital computing that has completely withstood the test of time. He gave us a very, very clear description that was truly prophetic. — George Dyson

So maybe God is orgasm. — Wendy Wunder

Good traders trade. Good letter writers write letters. — Ed Seykota

An atom is as true as a grain of sand
and yet
The former can ne'er be felt until the mingling
Of many in unison
Lends form and substance to the invisible

---Dreams--- — Ilene B. Benator

You have to go through the long, painful process of learning techniques to be able to recognize a "good accident" or a "bad accident." — Helen Mirren