Researchphilia Quotes & Sayings

I wish I still had that photo. — Warren Ellis

When governments are selling, you should be buying. And when governments are defaulting, we should look at that as an opportunity. — David Bonderman

Happily, researchphilia is not the problem it once was. The Internet makes just-in-time research very practical. — Edward M. Lerner

When you feel you are incomplete you can always console yourself with the idea of being infinite. — Luigina Sgarro

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you. — Martha Beck

There's nothing like success. — Dan Gable

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy. — Frank Chodorov

I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. — Bill Gates

I wanted to design a chair which looked like a shrub pruned to look
like a chair. — Richard Schultz

In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just "write" with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists? — Noah Lukeman

As Stephen Jay Gould pointed out in Time, in no other Western country is the teaching of Evolution regarded as controversial. Throughout the world, one way or another, most Christian denominations have managed to reconcile belief in God with belief in the mechanisms of natural selection. A French or German or Scandinavian politician who called for students to entertain as a reasonable deduction from existing evidence the proposition that Earth is at most 10,000 years old would be bundled off to a mental hospital. — Katha Pollitt

Men insist that they don't mind women succeeding so long as they retain their "femininity". Yet the qualities that men consider "feminine" timidity, submissiveness, obedience, silliness, and self-debasement are the very qualities best guaranteed to assure the defeat of even the most gifted aspirant. — Elizabeth Gould Davis

The code of the con is to know just enough about everything so you can lie about anything.
(attrib: E. Tancarville) — Dan Garfat-Pratt

I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I had - stupidly, embarrassingly - thought of finding Margo, and getting her to come home with me just in time for prom, like late on Saturday night, and we'd walk into the Hilton ballroom wearing jeans and ratty T-shirts, and we'd be just in time for the last dance, and we'd dance while everyone pointed at us and marveled at the return of Margo, and then we'd fox-trot the hell out of there and go get ice cream at Friendly's. So yes, like Ben, I harbored ridiculous prom fantasies. But at least I didn't say mine out loud. — John Green