Quienquiera Que Quotes & Sayings

[They] had geared themselves for wealth, excitement, and violent combat, so they fought and played feverishly in the enervating heat, exploited the labor of white servants and black slaves, risked sudden death from mysterious diseases or the annihilation of their profits in smashing storms and buccaneering raids. The expectations the English brought with them and the physical conditions they encountered in the islands produced a hectic mode of life that had no counterpart at home or elsewhere in English experience. This is what it meant to live beyond the line. — Richard Dunn

Scholars do one of two things when they discover information that doesn't fit what they already know. Either they sweep it aside so it doesn't bring their cherished theories into question or they focus on it with laserlike intensity and try to get to the bottom of the mystery. — Deborah Harkness

Though invisible I would be their assuring voice of denial; — Ralph Ellison

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us. — Thomas A. Edison

People believe in conspiracies because it's a way of believing that deep down, horror has some order and meaning, even if that meaning is evil. We don't support chaos, but there's no question that life is — Rosa Montero

Chess is so deep, I simply feel lost. — Vladimir Kramnik