Recals Quotes & Sayings

Every region should retain representative samples of its original or wilderness condition, to serve science as a sample of normality. Just as doctors must study healthy people to understand disease, so must the land sciences study the wilderness to understand disorders of the land-mechanism. — Aldo Leopold

I wonder if it's suffering."
"What, our generation?"
"The baby! — Kenzaburo Oe

I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar's hand, and Plato's brain,
Of Lord Christ's heart, and Shakespeare's strain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I had a couple of movies that I was passionately involved with that I could never get made. 'Richard Pryor,' I wrote for - gosh - over a year. That was close to getting made for two-and-a-half years after that. We're still pushing it, you know. It is weird. Suddenly you wake up and it's like, 'God, five years have gone by.' — Bill Condon

Increasingly, the central question is becoming who will have access to the information these machines must have in storage to guarantee that the right decisions are made. — Jean-Francois Lyotard

Have any of our friends got off the Island with their families, or what must they submit to? Despotism or destruction, I fear, is their fate. — William Floyd

Arizona is a great place to be a radiation researcher. — Steven Magee

I, for one, know of no sweeter sight for a man's eyes than his own country. — Homer

Any black person who clings to the misguided notion that white people represent the embodiment of all that is evil and black people all that is good remains wedded to the very logic of Western metaphysical dualism that is the heart of racist binary thinking. Such thinking is not liberatory. Like the racist educational ideology it mirrors and imitates, it invites a closing of the mind. — Bell Hooks

The town isn't big enough for two homicidal maniacs. — Jeph Loeb

Try to negotiate with yourself for success. — MHZ

The popularisation of scientific doctrines is producing as great an alteration in the mental state of society as the material applications of science are effecting in its outward life. Such indeed is the respect paid to science, that the most absurd opinions may become current, provided they are expressed in language, the sound of which recals [sic] some well-known scientific phrase. — James Clerk Maxwell

Even the greatest bringers of justice will only find salvation in surrneder — Jessica Shirvington

People of little understanding are most apt to be angry when their sense is called into question. — Samuel Richardson