Samadani Speech Quotes & Sayings

I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman. — Kate Beckinsale

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. — Burton Richter

It is our conditional compassion for ourselves that leads naturally to compassion for others. — Pema Chodron

2016 - I have a good feeling about this! — Charles F. Glassman

No Eden valid without serpent. — Wallace Stegner

As you think, so you become ... Our busy minds are forever jumping to conclusions, manufacturing and interpreting signs that aren't there. — Epictetus

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. — Mia Hamm

sexuality is sacred, and using it for amusement brings diminishing returns. — Ravi Zacharias

My best friend Zoe has a perfect rear end and stick legs, and long, silky black hair. She is obviously not descended from William Penn. There are no dowdy pilgrims in her ancestry. Whereas I am grounded and mired in this place, she's like milkweed fluff that will take off with the first strong breeze. Stronger than fluff, though. She's like a bullet just waiting for someone to pull the trigger. — Wendy Wunder

He grinned. It was the sort of grin that Agnes supposed was called infectious but, then, so was measles. — Terry Pratchett

I feel that whatever picture an artist makes it is in part a picture of himself - a matter of identity. — Emmet Gowin

Philosophy appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth. — Antonio Tabucchi

But we have soothed ourselves into imagining sudden change as something that happens outside the normal order of things. An accident, like a car crash. Or beyond our control, like a fatal illness. We do not conceive of sudden, radical, irrational change as built into the very fabric of existence. Yet it is. — Michael Crichton

One can no more look steadily at death than at the sun. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Alice leaned first one way and then the other, down the line of children. She said, Is everybody understanding this?"
One child said, "The misuse of power is the root of all evil?"
Alice said, "Well ... "
Another child said, "There is no justice on the earth?"
Alice said, "Well ... "
Another child said, "We are all alone in the world?"
Alice said, "Well ... "
Another child said, "The greatest depth of our loss is the beginning of true freedom?"
Alice said, "Well ... "
Another child said, "The disposal of human waste is the responsibility of the brokenhearted?"
These were all phrases Alice had put on the chalkboard after other field trips. It occurred to Alice, hearing these phrases now, that she might have attempted to do too much with a class of fourth graders. She was willing to admit to some excesses.
Alice said, "Just listen. — Lewis Nordan