Planetical Quotes & Sayings

There is a joke that I use all the time. I say it to my kids. I used to say it to my wife. She'd be talking to me about something very serious and then I would just look at her and go "Where are you from originally?" And she would go "Humphhh! C'mon. That's terrible!" — Stanley Tucci

Programming languages are like girlfriends: The new one is better because *you* are better. — Derek Sivers

To make an end of all things on Earth, and our Planetical System of the World, he (God) need but put out the Sun. — Thomas Browne

Old England is an imaginary place, a landscape built from words, woodcuts, films, paintings, picturesque engravings. It is a place imagined by people, and people do not live very long or look very hard. We are very bad at scale. The things that live in the soil are too small to care about; climate change too large to imagine. We are bad at time too. We cannot remember what lived here before we did; we cannot love what is not. Nor can we imagine what will be different when we are dead. We live out our three score and ten, and tie our knots and lines only to ourselves. We take solace in pictures, and we wipe the hills of history. — Helen Macdonald

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs. — Roger Waters

We try to grasp it, and do not get hold of it, and we name it 'the Subtle. — Lao-Tzu

When I was younger, I used to visualise myself scoring wonder goals, stuff like that. — Wayne Rooney

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille. — Ava Gardner

There is far less to the Presidency, in terms of essential activity, than meets the eye. — Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.

Simple works, complex fails. — Timothy Ferriss

See the valentine I made for Linus? On the inside, I wrote, To my sweet babboo."
"He says he's not your sweet babboo."
"What does he know? — Charles M. Schulz