Queerer Than We Can Suppose Quotes & Sayings

A counter-attack can only arise when you make a mistake. That's why there are rules. A horizontal pass? Prohibited. In my line-up there are as many lines as possible. Because you must have the option to pass the ball forward, even if it's a meter. Because then I can still make up for the loss of possession. After a horizontal pass this is impossible. — Johan Cruijff

Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple. I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that are dreamed of, or can be dreamed of, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself, and must be my excuse for dreaming. — John B. S. Haldane

Rather than waiting for future trials to determine rules that will impact every citizen, Congress should step in and write a law that takes every American's rights into consideration. — Ron Wyden

I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After living there for a few years I decided to move out of London, so I decided to rent it out for a few years. Then, as the property market continued to rise, I made the decision to sell. — Andy Murray

She was already learning that if you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you. — Terry Pratchett

It is both an honour and a privilege to be asked to lead NBC News. The power of the brand, the scale of the legacy, the depth of the talent all make this organisation truly great. — Deborah Turness

In order to perform the supernatural, you must first be able to accomplish the supernormal. — Anton Szandor LaVey

Never forsake your motherland. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do. — Jon Krakauer

Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' — Robin Hobb

Dare to be different.The world is full of the ordinary.-RVM — R.v.m.

Schopenhauer's Will-to-live, commendable as it may seem as a hypothesis, is too overwrought in the proving to be anything more than another intellectual labyrinth for specialists in perplexity. Comparatively, Zapffe's principles are non-technical and could never arouse the passion of professors — Thomas Ligotti

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post. — Cyril Connolly

He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he. — John Knowles

As the biologist J. B. S. Haldane once famously observed: "The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose." The — Bill Bryson

An expression of feeling isn't worth anything unless it interferes with what the other actor in the scene wants. — Michael Shurtleff

The universe is not only queerer than we suppose; it is queerer than we can suppose — Bill Bryson

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. — John B. S. Haldane