Rattlebrain Quotes & Sayings

He wrested the world's whereabouts from the stars, and locked the secret in a pocket watch. — Dava Sobel

All work and no play is not good for the soul — Felix Sabates

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. — Louise Imogen Guiney

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside! — Morris West

To seek after righteousness is not to pursue temporal things — Sunday Adelaja

. . . the abandonment of metaphysics involves more than the redefinition of the nature of rational inquiry in accordance with the tenets of modern scientific methodology; this redefinition itself makes matters of value and validity mere matters of opinion. — Alan White

Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is, I don't know which half. — John Wanamaker

Simple pleasures are best. — Alan Bradley

With a decrease in the number of pirates, there has been an increase in global warming over the same period. Therefore, global warming is caused by a lack of pirates. Even more compelling: Somalia has the highest number of Pirates AND the lowest Carbon emissions of any country. Coincidence? — Tim Ferriss

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death. — Jacqueline Cochran

Nemo suggested that it might be some monster giant but his papa called him a "rattlebrain" and ordered him to pacify his mama who was making elaborate plans to faint. — Winsor McCay

I did feel pressure to look a certain way on 'Hollyoaks.' But I just had to stay strong and not let myself get into a state of mind that isn't healthy. — Hannah Tointon

It was the task of industrial society to destroy all of that. All that "community" implies -- self-sufficiency, mutual aid, morality in the marketplace, stubborn tradition, regulation by custom, organic knowledge instead of mechanistic science -- had to be steadily and systematically disrupted and displaced. All of the practices that kept the individual from being a consumer had to be done away with so that the cogs and wheels of an unfettered machine called "the economy" could operate without interference, influenced merely by invisible hands and inevitable balances and all the rest of that benevolent free-market system guided by what Cobbett called, his lip curled toward Hume and James Steuart and Adam Smith, "Scotch Feelosophy. — Kirkpatrick Sale

Avoid litigations. They are expensive and consume loads of time but if you have got a good case and a better chance of winning; then fight it out. — Richard Branson

A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a heart in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Look inward for solutions to your greatest challenges. — Omer Soker