Pittard Speech Quotes & Sayings

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. — David McCullough

The luminous light that burns on the Arizona desert, out of long miles of untouched sage and sand. . . . Yes, that's where I want to be, on an observation car traveling swiftly into the Southwest. Losing myself in a shimmer of fine dust. — Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant

Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual, — Fannie Flagg

It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion. — Noah Webster

If you want to clean up the environment, start with your mind. It starts there! — Byron Katie

Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality.
Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore.
The two are rarely compatible. — Neil Gaiman

To think without saying is to hold an armed grenade without throwing it. — Francisco Parra

Above all human existence requires stability, the permanence of things. The result is an ambivalence with respect to all great and violent expenditure of strength; such an expenditure, whether in nature or in man, represents the strongest possible threat. The feelings of admiration and of ecstasy induced by them thus mean that we are concerned to admire them from afar. The sun corresponds to that prudent concern. It is all radiance gigantic loss of heat and light, flame, explosion; but remote from men, who can enjoy in safety and quiet the fruits of this cataclysm. To earth belongs the solidity which sustains houses of stone and the steps of men (at least on its surface, for buried within the depths of the earth is the incandescence of lava). — Georges Bataille

I want to be a poet, from head to toe, living and dying by poetry. — Federico Garcia Lorca

On Wall Street, financial crisis destroys jobs. Here in Washington, it creates them. The rest is just details. — Timothy Noah

Wearing cosmetics that were tested on animals makes you ugly on the inside — Ricky Gervais

It is a pity that there are no big creatures to prey on humanity. If there were enough dragons and rocs, perhaps mankind would turn its might against them. Unfortunately man is preyed upon by microbes, which are too small to be appreciated. — T.H. White

I am not one of those actors who believes he has to live the part he is playing. I can turn it on and off. — Donald Pleasence