Reusing And Repurposing Quotes & Sayings

Gradually, ... the aspect of science as knowledge is being thrust into the background by the aspect of science as the power of manipulating nature. It is because science gives us the power of manipulating nature that it has more social importance than art. Science as the pursuit of truth is the equal, but not the superior, of art. Science as a technique, though it may have little intrinsic value, has a practical importance to which art cannot aspire. — Bertrand Russell

Happiness will come to you when it comes from you. Others can only bring temporary happiness and not everyone understands you. — Krystal

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing. — Robert Bausch

I want no heaven for which I must give my reason; no happiness in exchange for my liberty, and no immortality that demands the surrender of my individuality. Better rot in the windowless tomb, to which there is no door but the red mouth of the pallid worm, than to wear the jeweled collar of a god. — Robert Green Ingersoll

The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism. — Wole Soyinka

Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today. — Greg Cipes

The others were far scattered, like leaves blown by the wild wind. — George R R Martin

with shoulders so wide I'm fairly certain I could perch on one of them and have room to spare. He's — Kristen Callihan

If God is dead, then man is dead too. — William Lane Craig

On the radio Smokey Robinson complained that a taste of honey is worse than none at all. — Tayari Jones

A snake bites your ankle.
Recoiling, you scream.
Fearing poison, your mind slips into a dream ...
... where a man bites your ankle.
Expecting no guile,
'Again' softly falls from your lips with a smile.
Yet the man and the snake are the same.
Your perception is only to blame. — Richelle E. Goodrich

In my art, I deconstruct and then I reconstruct, so visual perception is one of my primary interests. — Chuck Close