Refleja In English Quotes & Sayings

When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik in 1957, my parents, like the rest of America, were terrified. The Soviets had nuclear weapons and now were ahead of us in space. So my parents marched me and Owen into our living room, sat us down, and said, " You boys are going to study math and Science so we can beat the Soviets!"
I thought that was a lot of pressure to put on a six-year old. But own and I were obedient sons, so we studied math and science. And we were good at it.. Owen was the first in our family to go to college. He went to MIT, graduating with a degree in physics, and then became a photographer.
I went to Harvard, and became a comedian. My poor parents.
But we still beat the Soviets. You're welcome. — Al Franken

The Monte Carlo TV Festival is great because it's a celebration of television and great storytelling. — Eric Close

Life, said Tarde, is the search for the impossible by way of the useless. Let us always search for the impossible, since that is our destiny, and let us search for it by way of the useless, since no path goes by any other way, but let us rise to the consciousness that nothing we search for can be found, and that nothing along the way deserves a fond kiss or memory.

We weary of everything, said the scholiast, except understanding. Let us understand, let us keep understanding, and let us make ghostly flowers out of this understanding, shrewdly entwining them into wreaths and garlands which are also doomed to wilt. — Fernando Pessoa

Stay with CBS now for more news, including: Is there a pall over the mall as holiday shoppers think small? — Dan Rather

I've never dated a fictional character before. The closest I ever came was an Italian. — Woody Allen

Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web. — John Collison

True power comes from standing in your own truth and walking your own path. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Courtesy will be in my heart to give to all. — Walter Russell

I'm not bipolar, I've just had a bipolar life foisted upon me. — Daniel O'Malley

I felt I had an opportunity to follow in the footsteps of great soul musicians of the past, who made a lot of social and political commentary through their music. — Aloe Blacc

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals. — Brigid Brophy

God stays awake all the time. In case we need to talk to Him about something. — Karen Kingsbury

It's a cycle ... Religion is a source of relief for those who seek to anesthetize the pain that comes from following its beliefs. — Steve Maraboli