Primarily Petroliana Quotes & Sayings

In the poetry of arrival, the garage door is free verse; the front door can be anything from a rhyming couplet to a sonnet. — Akiko Busch

Are the hormones as bad as everyone says they are?" I asked him to change the subject.
He looked at up to me his brown eyes widened as he understood what I meant. Finally he grinned.
"That explains it."
"So, is that yes?
"That is ... good luck. — J.J. McAvoy

Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life. — Edward Weston

It's easier to say true things in the dark. Spider said, "You know what doesn't make sense here?" "Everything? — Neil Gaiman

We are beautiful because we are sons and daughters of God, not because we look a certain way. — Kate Wicker

Our eyes also fool us into thinking we can see depth. The retinas of our eyes are two-dimensional, but because we have two eyes separated by a few inches, the left and right brain merge these two images, giving us the false sense of a third dimension. — Michio Kaku

When we love animals and children too much, we love them at the expense of men. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. — George Bernard Shaw

To the extent that these advanced weapons or their components are treated as articles of commerce, perhaps for peaceful uses as in the Plowshare program, their cost would be well within the resources available to many large private organizations. — Herman Kahn

I'm not a fan of "finding your purpose." I'm a fan of "living with purpose. — Jon Acuff

Since there were others, a long time ago, who were kind enough to give me a hard time and allow me to study with them, I try and express the same Buddhist courtesy. — Frederick Lenz

Understand and harness the principles of disruptive innovation. — Clayton M Christensen

Looking back with the infallible benefit of hindsight, it's hard to imagine that anyone believed we could actually have stayed out of that damned war. — Craig Siegel

No medicine is more valuable, none more efficacious, none better suited to the cure of all our temporal ills than a friend to whom we may turn for consolation in time of trouble, and with whom we may share our happiness in time of joy. — Aelred Of Rievaulx

Despite all my efforts, I still can't honestly say that I feel closer to God and to myself. — Paulo Coelho