Roussillion Quotes & Sayings

Up to the days of Indiana's early statehood, probably as late as 1825, there stood, in what is now the beautiful little city of Vincennes on the Wabash, the decaying remnant of an old and curiously gnarled cherry tree, known as the Roussillion tree, le cerisier de Monsieur Roussillion, as the French inhabitants called it, which as long as it lived bore fruit remarkable for richness of flavor and peculiar dark ruby depth of color. — Maurice Thompson

Nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs. — Ouida

Quotes are a way of acting out not just a text, and not just thinking, but the making of a text. The construction of thinking. — Masha Tupitsyn

We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument. — Cass Sunstein

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. — David Alan Grier

If the parliamentary regime, even in the period of "peaceful", stable development, was a rather crude method of discovering the opinion of the country, and in the epoch of revolutionary storm completely lost its capacity to follow the course of the struggle and the development of revolutionary consciousness, the Soviet regime, which is more closely, straightly, honestly bound up with the toiling majority of the people, does achieve meaning, not in statically reflecting a majority, but in dynamically creating it. — Leon Trotsky

Asimov's "The Relativity of Wrong":3 When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. — Selenis Leyva

Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes. — Tim Ryan

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person. — Hillary Clinton

I always assumed that like my mother before me, one day I would have children. — Kim Cattrall