Salustiano Jimenez Quotes & Sayings

Alice goes into the kitchen and returns with a cup of coffee for me, which she announces is free-range and fair-trade and shade-farmed in Malawi, and I nod along as if my coffee needs go beyond hot and caffeinated. — Gayle Forman

We find sects and parties in most branches of science; and disputes which are carried on from age to age, without being brought to an issue. Sophistry has been more effectually excluded from mathematics and natural philosophy than from other sciences. In mathematics it had no place from the beginning; mathematicians having had the wisdom to define accurately the terms they use, and to lay down, as axioms, the first principles on which their reasoning is grounded. Accordingly, we find no parties among mathematicians, and hardly any disputes. — Thomas Reid

The colors of the underwater rock [are] as pale and delicate as those in the wardrobe of an 18th-century marchioness. — William Manchester

Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism. A girl has a right to dance how she wants, when her favourite record comes on. — Caitlin Moran

I'm more of a writer than a fighter you see. — Luke Pearson

In the background she can hear the shopping carts performing their clashy, anal copulations. — Neal Stephenson

Like the good Reverend King
I too 'have a dream'
but when I wake up
I forget it and
remember I'm running late for work. — Paul Beatty

Brian kept forcing them to go back out on tour. — Geoff Edgers

Music was such an important part of everyone's life in the '60s and '70s, but everywhere you played, the music was dreadful. — Peter Hook

Legalize it, and I will advertise it. — Peter Tosh

Believing, erroneously, the greater environment to be stable a given population quickly forgets the horrors of a few generations before - the competition, the droughts, volcanoes, economic depression, war, pestilence, dictatorship, genocide - and get comfortable where they are, courting complacency and by doing so unwittingly eroding the very success they are, for the present, enjoying. — John Zande

Poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion. — Annie Dillard