Ruairidh Henderson Quotes & Sayings

The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thus also do we utter words both sweet and sout with the same tongue. — Neil Gaiman

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things. — Zig Ziglar

The good life is one that's artistically made. — William Shatner

People with a goal. Such people would be easy to imbue with fervor and fanaticism. — Frank Herbert

I used to say that if you gave me a trillion dollars to build a sentient or conscious machine I would give it back. I could not honestly say I knew how it works. — Stuart J. Russell

Let's get one thing straight at the beginning. A lunar eclipse simply will not do. You may have seen a partial solar eclipse, but neither will that do. The sun is such a monster that until a few minutes before totality the light from the sun blasts right around the disk of the moon and the Earth is little changed.

Annie Dillard wrote that the difference between a partial eclipse and a total one is the difference between kissing a man and marrying him.

Just so. So people search out totality, no matter how remote the spot. And so we have come to Svalbard.

- from Out in the Cold — Bill Murray