Reaumur Temperature Quotes & Sayings

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. — Coco Chanel

A man may not fear to die, and yet be appalled by the form in which death comes to him. — Rafael Sabatini

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up. — Glen Hansard

Pretend to think well of yourself, and the world will think well of you. — Alexandre Dumas

Scotland has the only football team in the world that does a lap of disgrace. — Billy Connolly

But no. That was analogy rather than homology. What in the humanities they would call a heroic simile, if he understood the term, or a metaphor, or some other kind of literary analogy. And analogies were mostly meaningless - a matter of phenotype rather than genotype (to use another analogy). Most, of poetry and literature, really all the humanities, not to mention the social sciences, were phenotypic as far as Sax could tell. They added up to a huge compendium of meaningless analogies, which did not help to explain things, but only distorted perception of them. A kind of continuous conceptual drunkenness, one might say. Sax himself much preferred exactitude and explanatory power, and why not? If it was 200 Kelvin outside why not say so, rather than talk about witches' tits and the like, hauling the whole great baggage of the ignorant past along to obscure every encounter with sensory reality? It was absurd. — Kim Stanley Robinson