Prateria Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

What I think, Val, is that the biggest mistake a woman can make is convincing herself that she is the one who will be different. — Julie James

And yet in a funny way our lack of success led to our breakthrough; because, since we could not get a cell line off the shelf doing what we wanted, we were forced to construct it. And the original experiment ... developed into a method for the production of hybridomas ... [which] was of more importance than our original purpose. — Cesar Milstein

You cannot make a person believe anything unless that person has already had a conscious or unconscious vision of the same thing; you have no conviction of truth unless you have already apprehended it intuitively. — Gwethalyn Graham

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have. — Steve Guttenberg

I might respect you as a brilliant intellect, runner, musician or juggler. But respect your BELIEFS? Only if they're supported by evidence. — Richard Dawkins

Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch. — W.C. Fields

A man who examines each subject from a philosophical standpoint cannot neglect them: he has to omit nothing, and state the truth about each topic. — Aristotle.

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read. — Omar Khayyam

Like a Persian carpet the weave of time pushed their lives into a pattern. — Meghna Pant

I tried heroin once and I didn't like it. It frightened me. — Ozzy Osbourne

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I don't think I always look in people's faces, like, as - I think especially when I'm doing my more intimate songs that are quite personal, I always feel it's a bit accusing if I stare in someone's face when I singing quite a personal lyric. — Laura Mvula

Narrative has been part of human consciousness for a long time. And if it has played a part in all those thousands of years, it will know a trick or two. It will be wise. It will be mischievous. It will be helpful. It will be generous. — Jim Crace

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives. — Alison Jackson

The clean and proper (in the sense of incorporated and incorporable) becomes filthy, the sought-after turns into banished, fascination into shame. Then, forgotten time crops up suddenly and condenses into a flash of lightning an operation that, if it were though out, would involve bringing together the two opposite terms but, on account of that flash, is discharged like thunder. The time of abjection is double: a time of oblivion and thunder, of veiled infinity and the moment when revelation bursts forth. — Julia Kristeva