Quintiles Transnational Quotes & Sayings

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth

Academic environments are generally characterised by the presence of peole who claim to understand more than in fact they do. Linguistic Philosophy has produced a great revolution, generating people who claim not to understand when in fact they do. Some achieve great virtuosity at it. Any beginner in philosophy can manage not to understand, say, Hegel, but I have heard people who were so advanced that they knew how not to understand writers of such limpid clarity as Bertrand Russell or A.J. Ayer. — Ernest Gellner

Sometimes one needs a little bit of faith when faced with a difficult situation. Rational answers don't always work. We also need a miracle. — Amish Tripathi

It is the mothers not the warriors who create a people and guide their destiny. — Luther Standing Bear

Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they're gonna jump on it ... There's gonna be haters. — Justin Bieber

It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts. — Maisie Williams

Crackers, toasted or hard bread may be added a short time before the soup is wanted; but do not put in those libels on civilized cookery, called DUMPLINGS! One might about as well eat, with the hope of digesting, a brick from the ruins of Babylon, as one of the hard, heavy masses of boiled dough which usually pass under this name. — Sarah Josepha Hale

When I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns. I study these creatures. they are my teachers. — Charles Bukowski

A digital sound sample in angry rap doesn't correspond to the graffiti but the wall. — Jaron Lanier

For comic writers charge Socrates with making the worse appear the better reason. — Quintilian

I am not your enemy, Todd Hewitt," he says one more time. "Just tell me her name and this will all stop." I — Patrick Ness

When your trying to be an adult in a relationship you seriously don't need to lie or front and try to put on this big picture or pseud like your something that your not. — Gabrielle Dennis

I once heard one of his colleagues describe my father as the kind of guy who could tell you to go to hell and you'd look forward to the trip. — Richard Paul Evans

When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel. — Patti Smith

I profess not to know how women's hearts are wooed and won. To me they have always been matters of riddle and admiration. — Washington Irving