Presunta Desgracia Quotes & Sayings

In a way, the blank canvas ... represents the infinity of trying to use color to express emotions - to assign a linguistic function to color. — Guido Molinari

One can acquire certainty only by amputating inquiry. — Marvin Minsky

I am learning that the best cure for hypocrisy is community. Hypocrisy is not so much the result of not living what I preach but much more of not confessing my inability to fully live up to my own words. — Henri Nouwen

I simply imagine it so, then go about to prove it. — Albert Einstein

Sex isn't what I'm after. Sex is just what I can get. — John Valentine

The psychology of silk underclothes has not yet been fully considered, mused Miss Pettigrew happily. — Winifred Watson

National Review once opined, many years ago, that, every year, the Nobel peace prize should go to the U.S. secretary of defense: The American military is the number-one guarantor of peace in the world. But maybe something like a Nobel freedom prize would be a more appropriate award for Reagan than a peace prize. — Jay Nordlinger

He also said that if anyone did anything to mess up the rest of the testing, he was going to call 911 personally.
Yeah, like that wouldn't make it into the nightly news again: WHEELCHAIR-BOUND CANCER PATIENT ARRESTED FOR FREE SPEECH. — Jordan Sonnenblick

One quality that a director needs to acquire in Hollywood is to understand the system and figure out how to work within the system to express one's own ideas. — Kim Jee-woon

A recent Pew Study revealed that 70% of Americans with a religious affiliation say that many religions lead to eternal life. Some people might think that "surely the statistics among evangelical Christians is different." Not by much. — Robert Jeffress

In her they instinctively sensed an outlaw, and theirs was the task of policing nature. — Radclyffe Hall

Weightlessness makes astronauts lose taste and smell in space. In the absence of gravity, molecules cannot be volatile, so few of them get into our noses deeply enough to register as odors. This is a problem for nutritionists designing space food. — Diane Ackerman