Reinjecting Quotes & Sayings

The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which men shall fly along distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration to be. — Simon Newcomb

Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right. — Yoana Dianika

That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it. — Joyce Carol Oates

Crime butchers innocence to secure a throne, and innocence struggles with all its might against the attempts of crime. — Maximilien Robespierre

Both read the Bible day and night,
But thou read'st black where I read white. — William Blake

[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's game; phrenology (that sinkhole of human folly and prating coxcombry); spontaneous generation; transmutation of species; and I know not what; all to be swallowed, without tasting and trying, like so much horse-physic!! Gross credulity and rank infidelity joined in unlawful marriage, and breeding a deformed progeny of unnatural conclusions! — Adam Sedgwick

Software is now so complex - requiring so many gazillions of tiny files all over your computer - that most consumers don't want to bother to know what's really going on. — Clive Thompson

Fierce-looking, a coal-eyed brunette with a gaze direct as lasers. She — Tess Gerritsen

What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that. — James R. Clapper

The Crown. Place it upon your head and you assume a different post-tranquil yet radiating assurance. Never show doubt, never lose your dignity beneath the crown, or it will not fit. It will seem to be destined for one more worthy. Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emporers crown themselves. — Robert Greene

Now I understand why you grow so many flowers."
She shifted her head, not understanding.
I said, "To cover the stink of sulphur. — John Fowles

We pacifists have not ceased to point to the grave danger of armaments and to insist on their curtailment. — Ludwig Quidde

We think of Marilyn who was every man's love affair with America. Marilyn Monroe who was blonde and beautiful and had a sweet little rinky-dink of a voice and all the cleanliness of all the clean American backyards. — Norman Mailer

Time. So much of our human experience is bound up in time, I muse. It reflects in our everyday colloquialisms, and drives so much of our activities. Yet this obsession with the passing of the hours is a relatively modern phenomenon; an inevitable product of the Industrial Revolution, and its fixation on efficiency. A new master exported by England across the globe, so that in the developed world at least everyone has one wrist on which is clamped the new and unforgiving shackle we call a watch. In less pressurised days, men observed the ageing of the universe through the more sedate changing of the seasons. But no more. Now the hour is king, or the minute and sometimes even the second. We are all people in a rush, where speed is of the essence, and slow is often deployed as a term of abuse. — John Dolan