Produit Scalaire Quotes & Sayings

Surprise me! Yogi's reply when he was asked by his wife, Carmen, where he would like to be buried — Yogi Berra

Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody. — Irwin Shaw

How This Book Works — Sheila MacKechnie Murtha

I think innocence is something that adults project upon children that's not really there. — Donna Tartt

Ow do you knock out a Denizen?" asked Suzy. "I tried it myself once or twice, but just hitting them never works."
"It is not the force of the blow, but the authority with which it is delivered," quoth the raven. — Garth Nix

The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.] — Bruce Ames

Isn't it funny how the slightest glance or the tiniest touch can ameliorate the discomforts of even the coldest day. — Patrick Stevens

I craved a form of naive realism. I paid special attention, I craned my readerly neck whenever a London street I knew was mentioned, or a style of frock, a real public person, even a make of car. Then, I thought, I had a measure, I could guage the quality of the writing by its accuracy, by the extent to which it aligned with my own impressions, or improved upon them. I was fortunate that most English writing of the time was in the form of undemanding social documentary. I wasn't impressed by those writers (they were spread between South and North America) who infiltrated their own pages as part of the cast, determined to remind poor reader that all the characters and even they themselves were pure inventions and the there was a difference between fiction and life. Or, to the contrary, to insist that life was a fiction anyway. Only writers, I thought, were ever in danger of confusing the two. — Ian McEwan

The whole Modernist lie is that art is about the artist. — Thomas Kinkade

pretty soon, there will be ten billion people coming to dinner. And there is no way they are going to be fed organically. — Joe Schwarcz