Povinelli Greenwich Quotes & Sayings

58. "Love is something so ugly that the human race would die out if lovers could see what they were doing" (Leonardo da Vinci). — Maggie Nelson

The process of dreaming transfers psychical intensity from what is important, but also objectionable, onto what is insignificant. — Sigmund Freud

Honesty was often just a way of being cruel. — Jeff VanderMeer

That Crawford Tilinghast should ever have studied science and philosophy was a mistake. These things should be left to the frigid and impersonal investigator for they offer two equally tragic alternatives to the man of feeling and action; despair, if he fail in his quest, and terrors unutterable and unimaginable if he succeed. — H.P. Lovecraft

I grew up studying music. I went to conservatory. — Lance Reddick

I will say, I'm a great, great, great grandson of Stephen F. Austin. He founded Austin, Texas, which is kind of cool. — Jesse Plemons

Thoughts - even fears - were airy things, formless until you made them solid with your voice and once given that weight, they could crush you. — Kristin Hannah

If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his life to, I would answer: training. Train more than you sleep. — Mas Oyama

By the time of the Singularity, there won't be a distinction between humans and technology. This is not because humans will have become what we think of as machines today, but rather machines will have progressed to be like humans and beyond. Technology will be the metaphorical opposable thumb that enables our next step in evolution. — Ray Kurzweil

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. — Pete Rose

That is the way to learn the most; when you are doing something with such enjoyment that you don't notice that the time passes. I am sometimes so wrapped up in my work that I forget about the noon meal. — Albert Einstein