Rusinol Spanish Painter Quotes & Sayings

Chemical exploration, chemical discovery, was all the more romantic for its dangers. I felt a certain boyish glee in playing with these dangerous substances, and I was struck, in my reading, by the range of accidents that had befallen the pioneers. Few naturalists had been devoured by wild animals or stung to death by noxious plants or insects; few physicists had lost their eyesight gazing at the heavens, or broken a leg on an inclined plane; but many chemists had lost their eyes, limbs, and even their lives, usually through producing inadvertent explosions or toxins. — Oliver Sacks

The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. — Carl Sagan

Romantic love is not an emotion ... It's a drive. It comes from the motor of the mind, the wanting part of the mind, the craving part of the mind. — Helen Fisher

I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up. — Joe Perry

My ambition is handicapped by laziness — Charles Bukowski

If you point out that they're walking in shit they scream it's you that have dirty feet. — Simone De Beauvoir

She herself loved the character of Elizabeth Bennet. I must confess that I think her as delightful a creature as ever appeared in print, and how I shall be able to tolerate those who do not like her at least, I do not know. — Carol Shields

It is not truth, but opinion that can travel the world without a passport. — Walter Raleigh

If you are a guillotine producer, watch out your head; because wickedness is a boomerang. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. — Claes Oldenburg

There ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered. — John Stuart Mill

By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to be carrying at the time. Conrad is something of a scientific miracle. There are more than thirty metal pins in his body. He has a metal plate in his skull. There are metal wires in his jaw and in most of his major joints."
"He must set off a lot of airport alarms," Alex muttered. — Anthony Horowitz

In order to become a big-league manager you have to be in the right place at the right time. That's rule number one. — Leo Durocher

Women hand sight down through the generations. Mother to daughter. — Jewell Parker Rhodes