Reginald Barclay Quotes & Sayings

A page digested is better than a volume hurriedly read. — Thomas B. Macaulay

MISTRESS CLEANASYOUGO The most powerful superhero of all, the one everyone wishes they were, is Mistress Cleanasyougo. At the end of every day she folds her clothes. She never leaves scissors on the table, pens with no ink are thrown in the trash, wet towels are always hung up, dishes are washed directly after dinner and nothing is left unsaid. — Andrew Kaufman

Weight, force and casual impulse, together with resistance, are the four external powers in which all the visible actions of mortals have their being and their end. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Believing your own bullshit is always a perilous activity, but never more fatal than for the owner of a start-up venture. — Felix Dennis

Voodoo is a very interesting religion for the whole family, even those members of it who are dead. — Terry Pratchett

If you cast wrong, you are in a lot of trouble. — Paul Mazursky

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep. — Shelby Harris

Beauty is in the ideal of perfect harmony which is in the Universal Being; Truth the perfect comprehension of the Universal Mind. — Rabindranath Tagore

In 1905, when you went motoring, you took your mechanic. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the automobile, but buying a Ford wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a mechanic on board. In 1955, when you used your computer, you took your programmer. Twenty-five years later, mass production revolutionized the role of the computer, but buying a micro wouldn't have made sense if everyone still needed a programmer. — Gerald Weinberg

I studied the smile, couldn't decide if it looked sincere or rehearsed. And that thought troubled me. I was good at reading people and their intentions, but only if I wasn't too invested. Once invested, I couldn't separate what I wished to be true from what was actually true. — Penny Reid

You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theaters, and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience, whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together, corpse. — Isaac Marion

Nobility is often no more than the inner aspect which our egotistical feelings assume when we have not yet named and classified them. — Marcel Proust