Pods Storage Quotes & Sayings

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know. — James Russell Lowell

Music was like food, like water, like air - that necessary, that essential - and here she was in a break-on-through mood and nothing for it but her own stumbling version caught like lint on her tongue. — T.C. Boyle

Whatever depends on conditions
Is empty of inherent existence,
What excellent instruction could there be,
More amazing than these words? — Tsongkhapa

It is an absolutely vain endeavor to attempt to reconstruct or even comprehend the nature of a human being by simply knowing the forces which have acted upon him. However deeply we should like to penetrate, however close we seem to be drawing to truth, one unknown quantity eludes us: man's primordial energy, his original self, that personality which was given him with the gift of life itself. On it rests man's true freedom; it alone determines his real character. — Wilhelm Von Humboldt

described my tomatoes and growing process to Alan (the tomato guru). He thought I might be watering my plants too much. When I wailed, "How can anyone tell what the right amount is?" He said, "You let them suffer. Hold off on the water until they just start to wilt - and then you save them. Suffer and save. — Spring Warren

Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support. — Paul Davies

Knowledge has three degrees
opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition. — Plotinus

Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later. — Al Leiter