Saperi E Quotes & Sayings

Tell a man that there are 400 billion stars and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint and he has to touch it. — Steven Wright

The human genome will not help us to understand the spiritual side of humankind, or to know who God is or what love is. The well-heeled couple who decide they want to use genetics to have a child that is a gifted musician may end up with a sullen adolescent who smokes marijuana and doesn't talk to them. — Francis Collins

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography. — Michael Polanyi

Design with skepticism, and you will achieve resilience. Ask, "What can system X do to hurt me?" and then design a way to dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge whatever wrench your supposed ally throws. — Michael T. Nygard

Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern. — Henry Ward Beecher

The short and obscene sentence of Poseidonius about the rubbing together of two small pieces of flesh, which I have seen you copy in your exercise books with the application of a good schoolboy, does no more to define the phenomenon of love than the cord touched by the finger accounts for the infinite miracle of sounds. Such a dictum is less an insult to pleasure than to the flesh itself, that amazing instrument of muscles, blood, and skin, that red-tinged cloud whose lightning is the soul. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Happiness is unrepented pleasure. — Socrates

I don't hold myself dictated to by what everyone is saying, by the tabloids or popular opinion. I don't like bourgeois values. I say you find your own way to live. — James Salter

I really love being a character actor. — Missi Pyle

I've only been here a couple minutes, but it was long enough to recognize first class eye-fuckery. — Tessa Bailey

Teaching was great for me, because I got to show people how writing can really change the way you see not only yourself but the world. — Sarah Dessen

Technology is usually there to let some process go on hidden in the background. For us on 'MythBusters,' we're always trying to make the process apparent. So, we have learned to try and never rely on a technological solution when an analogue one is in front of us. — Adam Savage

Fate is never fair. You are caught in a current much stronger than you are; struggle against it and you'll drown not just yourself but those who try to save you. Swim with it. and you'll survive — Cassandra Clare

I personally believe that war is highly unlikely. — Kliment Voroshilov