Purposively Sampled Quotes & Sayings

Not every man is what he seems, and a prince especially has good cause to be wary ... but go too far down that road, and the mistrust can poison you, make you sour and fearful. — George R R Martin

In life we're most hell-bent on proving things that we're not really sure are true. — Curtis Sittenfeld

So this is what men are like. Well, that's it, then - I am going to be a lesbian. — Louise Rennison

The Field of Dreams conceit is especially popular in Silicon Valley, where engineers are biased toward building cool stuff rather than selling it. But customers will not come just because you build it. You have to make that happen, and it's harder than it looks. — Peter Thiel

It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection. — Michael Behe