Por Lugares Incriveis Quotes & Sayings

Euler calculated the force of the wheels necessary to raise the water in a reservoir ... My mill was carried out geometrically and could not raise a drop of water fifty yards from the reservoir. Vanity of vanities! Vanity of geometry! — Frederick The Great

Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man. — Plutarch

There are a lot of good reasons to live, I tell her, and hope she won't ask for a list. — Chuck Palahniuk

She had a choice. For one brilliant moment, it beamed at her with an unusual clarity, fixing itself in her mind. She could push her fingers into the waistband of his shorts and discover the precise scope of Levi's desire, or she could withdraw her hand and let whatever was between them continue to build. Either way, the end would be the same. Levi would walk away with some piece of her. The only question was, how big of a chunk would he take? Which path would bring the most heartache? It was coming, like a train steaming down the tracks, a frightening rush of noise and smoke and unstoppable momentum. Her only choices lay in the when and the how. — Lucy Varna

Henry VIII in full armor, it was said, weighed 500 pounds. — Oliver Sacks

If your job was remotely interesting, there would be a show on A&E about it. — Aziz Ansari

In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Right now though, there is little that concerns me more than the impending assault on the human rights and equality of women and the pink community in South Africa. Right now there are events afoot in this country which justify my concern. — Christina Engela

Take pictures of what you fear. — Diane Arbus

I was enamored with him. And I was excited. And I was enjoying it. — Monica Lewinsky