Pillersdorf Quotes & Sayings

In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. — Thomas Huxley

Oh, I daresay they're all very well as decoration, somethin' nice to look at while you're workin', somethin' for show, but the start and finish, the start and finish, is helpin' people when life is on the edge. Even people you don't like. Stars is easy, people is hard. — Terry Pratchett

It is conceivable that animal life might have the attribute of using the heat of surrounding matter, at its natural temperature, as a source of energy for mechanical effect ... The influence of animal or vegetable life on matter is infinitely beyond the range of any scientific enquiry hitherto entered on. Its power of directing the motions of moving particles, in the demonstrated daily miracle of our human free-will, and in the growth of generation after generation of plants from a single seed, are infinitely different from any possible result of the fortuitous concurrence of atoms. — Lord Kelvin

There is a tricycle in man. He knows, he feels and acts. He has emotion, intellect and will. He must develop head, heart and hand. — Sivananda

He says this is war. There is no shame in war. Tell him he's wrong. War doesn't negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace. — Khaled Hosseini

For the record, I do have genitals; and they are functional and aesthetically pleasing. — Chuck Lorre

And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window. — Joan Rivers

Sometimes there are no good choices. — Lesli Linka Glatter

Writing a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. — Jay Neugeboren

Now I become death destroyer of worlds — Ronald McDonald

Leave the past behind you so the future can find you — Brittainy C. Cherry

You wanted a more interesting world ... Maybe I'm growing up quickly. Maybe I'm better than you planned ... Maybe I'm just showing you that your world was interesting enough all the time, all on its own. And now I'm punishing you. — Warren Ellis

If I were Achilles I would put my foot in a f**k off block of concrete! — Eddie Izzard

God loves you because He has chosen to do so. — Max Lucado

It's really not hard to keep your dignity and sign to a major label ... Most people don't have any dignity in the first place. — Kurt Cobain