Reflexos Luminosos Quotes & Sayings

If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away, so signals would take many years to reach them: there would be no scope for quick repartee. There might be an IQ gap. — Martin Rees

Is it honest for me to go and sit there on communion day and drink the wine and eat the bread while feeling it all to be mummery? — John Fiske

If I failed in what I now designed to undertake, who, save myself, would suffer? — Charlotte Bronte

Rural poverty happens because people aren't being paid to take adequate care of their places. There's lots of work to do here. And you can't afford to pay anybody to do it! If you depress the price of the products of the place below a certain level, people can't afford to maintain it. And that's the rural dilemma. — Wendell Berry

Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value. — Edward De Bono

Twitter is good. Why say a lot to a few people when you can say virtually nothing to everyone? — Jerry Seinfeld

If I can win a Cup race, that would pretty much show my whole career that I've been able to win in everything I've gotten into. — Scott Pruett

The kind of doctor I want is one who when he's not examining me is home studying medicine. — George S. Kaufman

growing old was mandatory but growing up was optional. — Carl A. Sparks

Eleanor Roosevelt fights for an anti-lynch law with the NAACP, with Walter White and Mary McLeod Bethune. And she begs FDR to say one word, say one word to prevent a filibuster or to end a filibuster. From '34 to '35 to '36 to '37 to '38, it comes up again and again, and FDR doesn't say one word. And the correspondence between them that we have, I mean, she says, "I cannot believe you're not going to say one word." And she writes to Walter White, "I've asked FDR to say one word. Perhaps he will." But he doesn't. And these become very bitter disagreements. — Blanche Wiesen Cook

It always seemed to me that men wore their beards, like they wear their neckties, for show. — D.H. Lawrence

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led. — Giacomo Casanova

She was the kind of girl
who loved to stretch out
under the sheets,
eating chocolate,
reading books
and fucking on
rainy afternoons. — Michael Faudet