Ruffoni Opus Quotes & Sayings

All the humor evaporates from his face and his honey-brown eyes. Within seconds he has me in his arms and he hugs me like I'm the most important thing in the world to him. — Jessica Sorensen

As modern physics started with the Newtonian revolution, so modern philosophy starts with what one might call the Cartesian Catastrophe. The catastrophe consisted in the splitting up of the world into the realms of matter and mind, and the identification of 'mind' with conscious thinking. The result of this identification was the shallow rationalism of l' esprit Cartesien, and an impoverishment of psychology which it took three centuries to remedy even in part. — Arthur Koestler

The best way to describe the sonic environment at the '98 CES is:
Imagine that the apocalypse took the form of a cocktail party. — David Foster Wallace

What am I supposed to say to an atheist when he sneezes, ah, when you die nothing happens. — Dane Cook

Nothing is clear now. Something must be the matter with my way of viewing things. I have no middle view. Either I fix on a detail and see it as thought it were magnified
a leaf with all its veins perceived, the fine hairs on a man's hands
or else the world recedes and becomes blurred, artificial, indefinite, an abstract painting of a world. The darkening sky is hugely blue, gashed with rose, blood, flame from the volcano or wound or flower of the lowering sun. The wavering green, the sea of grass, piercingly bright. Black tree trunks, contorted, arching over the river. — Margaret Laurence

In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter. — Alan Perlis

I felt motion in the landscape; in the fresh, easy-blowing morning wind, and in the earth itself, as if the shaggy grass were a sort of loose hide, and underneath it herds of wild buffalo were galloping, galloping ... Alone, — Willa Cather

A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see. — Thulasiraj Ravilla

Love is a terrible thing and its loss is even worse.
Love is a terrible thing and I want nothing to do with it. — Nicola Yoon