Sam Puckett Quotes & Sayings

Art, to me, was a research laboratory, — Supervert

If you are sure that you are about to fail, then this strange and serene calmness can come over you or the most abject fear and panic and feeling of helplessness. — Peter Gallagher

The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Here she tossed her foot impatiently, and showed an inch or two of calf. A sailor on the mast, who happened to look down at the moment, started so violently that he missed his footing and only saved himself by the skin of his teeth. 'If the sight of my ankles means death to an honest fellow who, no doubt, has a wife and family to support, I must, in all humanity, keep them covered,' Orlando thought. Yet her legs were among her chieftest beauties. And she fell to thinking what an odd pass we have come to when all a woman's beauty has to be kept covered lest a sailor fall from a mast-head. 'A pox on them!' she said, realizing for the first time what, in other circumstances, she would have been taught as a child, that is to say, the sacred responsibilities of womanhood ... — Virginia Woolf

In business, you try to minimise risk. — Baba Kalyani

The resulting, stable singularities now carry the name BKL in honor of Belinsky, Khalatnikov, and Lifshitz. A BKL singularity is chaotic. Highly chaotic. And lethal. Highly lethal. — Kip S. Thorne

The price that one pays for refusing to act on the truth as one sees it, is to be led to believe untruth to avoid guilt. — Kenneth L. Pike

There is no illness that is not exacerbated by stress. — Allan Lokos

At the end of the day, the harsh reality is that if you're a fan of Kate Bush, Charles Dickens, Scrabble, David Attenborough and University Challenge, then there's not much out there for you in terms of a youth movement. — David Nicholls