Protractor And Compass Quotes & Sayings

She wanted to hug him and at the same time she kind of wanted to slap him. — Liane Moriarty

Now I don't know if you realize it, but the film industry's a small world. It's like living in a tenement at one end of a back alley. Not only do you see everybody's dirty laundry, but once rumors start, you can't stop 'em. — Haruki Murakami

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour. — Bryan Ferry

Pain is inevitable, from this perspective, but suffering is an optional extra, resulting from our attachments, which represent our attempt to try to deny the unavoidable truth that everything is impermanent. — Oliver Burkeman

Nobody before the Pythagorean had thought that mathematical relations held the secret of the universe. Twenty-five centuries later, Europe is still blessed and cursed with their heritage. To non-European civilizations, the idea that numbers are the key to both wisdom and power, seems never to have occurred. — Arthur Koestler

What we understand is that society must allow room for the irrational, in healthy balance with the rational. — Robin Robertson

Mrs Woodburn was not an enthusiastic young wife, but knew very well that marriage had its drawbacks, and had come to an age at which she could appreciate the comfort of having her own way without any of the bother. She gave a furtive glance after Lucilla, and could not but acknowledge to herself that it would be very foolish of Miss Marjoribanks to marry, and forfeit all her advantages, and take somebody else's anxieties upon her shoulders, and never have any money except what she asked from her husband. — Mrs. Oliphant

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. — Publilius Syrus

We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th. — George W. Bush

[Barak Obama] just said children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement - meaning deportation - as long as they've not. — Rush Limbaugh

I've done commercial work for Amtrak. However, that was branded as Stanton. I stipulated at the very beginning that it was not going to involve 'Humans of New York,' that I wasn't going to promote it on 'Humans of New York.' So nobody who follows me really even knows that I did it. — Brandon Stanton

The belief that we some day shall be able to prevent war is, to me, one with the belief in the possibility of making humanity really human. — Ellen Key

So I like to make music, and I like to share music. This is also a gift. — Cecilia Bartoli

They sell us the President the same way they sell us our clothes and cars. — Jackson Browne