Requisiting Quotes & Sayings

He chuckled, shaking his head. "Man, you hunters. I break a pencil and there's hell to pay."
"I can see how that's deeply unfair, Chip. Especially if that pencil should try to kill you with it teeth and claws, or launch its brood of a thousand deadly paper clips against you. — Scott Westerfeld

Man's wonder grows with his knowledge. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. — Winona Ryder

I always like to say just think you were a doctor with only one patient. You might understand how that person gets sick, how they get better, but you understand nothing about the progression of disease or how humans in general get ill. Now take an Earth scientist: you only have one planet to study. — Ellen Stofan

They say, don't cry because it's over but instead smile because it had happened. — Ravinder Singh

Insight enables you to know your own heart. Clarity enables you to accept without illusion. — Deepak Chopra

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear end when I have a pitcher that's going to hit. — Joe Torre

A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously. — Edward Abbey

We're going to Connecticut.' A deep inhale. 'Via a pond dome.' I blinked bit by bit. 'Through the Sound.' I rolled my shoulders. 'I think I should have paid better attention when Mom took me to Sunday school classes. — Scarlett Dawn

Ever since man began to till the soil and learned not to eat the seed grain but to plant it and wait for harvest, the postponement of gratification has been the basis of a higher standard of living and of civilization. — S.I. Hayakawa