Plumb Bob Quotes & Sayings

Scientists can routinely predict a solar eclipse, to the minute, a millennium in advance. You can go to the witch doctor to lift the spell that causes your pernicious anaemia, or you can take Vitamin B12. If you want to save your child from polio, you can pray or you can inoculate. If you're interested in the sex of your unborn child, you can consult plumb-bob danglers all you want ... but they'll be right, on average, only one time in two. If you want real accuracy ... try amniocentesis and sonograms. Try science. — Carl Sagan

But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep. — Mahatma Gandhi

Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen ... — Natalie Clifford Barney

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors? — Terry Wogan

eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is. — David Conger

The Lord God sees this here mess from on high. — Beverly Lewis

As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog. — Ngugi Wa Thiong'o

Rosamond being one of those women who live much in the idea that each man they meet would have preferred them if the preference had not been hopeless. — George Eliot

We had sold our death to somebody at the door for the sum of £70:18:6d and lent our fear to somebody at the door as well on interest of £3:10:0d per month, so we did not care about death and we did not fear again. — Amos Tutuola

Praise and worship is not for certain or special individuals, it's for every believer. 'Let everything that has breath praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!' (Psalms 150:6). — Euginia Herlihy

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism. — Chris Chocola

She got up from the bed, knelt beside the bed, and put her forehead down on the covers. She was not practiced at prayer anymore. The only word that came to mind was "please". — Nancy Horan

What is it about fire that's so lovely? No matter what age we are, what draws us to it? ... The thing man wanted to invent, but never did ... If you let it go on, it'd burn our lifetimes out. What is fire? It is a mystery. Scientists give us gobbledygook about friction and molecules. But they don't really know. Its real beauty is that it destroys responsibility and consequences. — Ray Bradbury

There is nothing in this world I want more," he whispered, "than to call you my husband. — N.R. Walker

I'm at the stage of my career when it's not only about winning and developing players, it's about having fun. That's a void in your life right now, but it's something you're going to have here. — Rick Pitino

A king's crumb is worth more than a lord's loaf." 'This — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra