Rettet Raffi Quotes & Sayings

The dimmed outlines of phenomenal things all merge into one another unless we put on the focusing-glass of theory, and screw it up sometimes to one pitch of definition and sometimes to another, so as to see down into different depths through the great millstone of the world. — James Clerk Maxwell

The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands. — James Madison

A disturbing possibility is that overtime is not so much a means to increase the quantity of work time as to improve its average quality. — Tom DeMarco

I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty. — Rupert Holmes

Where fear is, happiness is not. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

But benevolent patriarchy is still patriarchy. — Sue Monk Kidd

And I don't see that popular measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels, self-abnegation has filled the Southeast Asian jungles with stone idols and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax. — L. Ron Hubbard

There are worse situations than drowning in cash and sitting, sitting, sitting. I remember when I wasn't awash in cash - and I don't want to go back. — Charlie Munger

I would rather have a plain down-right wisdom than a foolish and affected eloquence. — Ben Jonson

I use something that is a real staple in the directing world. It's called a dance floor. You lay it down so that it's so smooth you can roll around, and you can put furniture on top of it. It's seamless and you don't see it. — Debbie Allen

I really did for a few weeks think, I'm in pain because the world needs me to save it. Which is so ridiculous and egotistical. — Heidi Julavits

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him! — Bram Stoker

Joshen tipped her chin up and kissed her. He was always soft and gentle, but today Senna felt an undeniable hunger somewhere deep inside him. He was trying to suppress it. But she didn't want that. She wanted him to banish the lingering foulness of the curse and the fear that had never released her from its sweaty grasp, replacing all of that with the sweet taste of his mouth. — Amber Argyle

All representations of a thing are inherently abstract. — John Green

Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent. — William Shakespeare