Saphead 1920 Quotes & Sayings

Love your enemies because they bring out the best in you. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Flora was in that state where the spirit may be willing but the flesh is weak and wishes to go on holiday - and where the flesh in most cases wins hands down with a packed suitcase. It did so now. So she did what many a researcher both great and insignificant does when they are stuck. She yawned while contemplating how to catch the Muse by surprising Her. Almost invariably, the Muse has seen it all before - and also yawns. — Mavis Cheek

A likeness pleases every body; — Jane Austen

In the Eroica and other pieces of his middle years, Beethoven hailed the enlightened leader, the benevolent despot, the military spirit. Now for him the military spirit is nothing but destruction. By the end of this section the bugles are raging, the drums roaring, the choir crying Dona pacem! in terror. Now we understand what Beethoven meant by "prayer for inner and outer peace." The inner peace is that of the spirit. The outer peace is in the world. The fear and trembling in the Missa solemnis is not the fear of losing salvation in eternity; it is the human, secular fear of violence and chaos. — Jan Swafford

Routine is the housekeeper of inspiration — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

I want to be some body's dumplin'. I'm not chicken. — Amanda Mosher

Databases, ontologies, and visual representations tie informatic genomes to the specific practices of computers, computational biology, and bioinformatics. — Anonymous

I yearned to get better; I told myself I was getting better. In fact, the depression was still there, like a powerful undertow. Sometimes it grabbed me, yanked me under; other times, I swam free. — Tracy Thompson

Oceans recede and coastlines wither and crack. Nations lapse; others soon swagger in their places. Mountains crumble to dust, rains vanish into the sea, winds return whence they came, and every city men build has but a jumble of bones for its foundation. What is your need to me? I am the Watcher in the Dark. — J. Aleksandr Wootton

I never expected to be a star, never counted on it, never even wanted it. Not that I didn't enjoy it all when it happened. — Audrey Hepburn

Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge. — Aime Cesaire

E all do it. We talk about people we don't like until they become famous. Then we love 'em. — Daniel Black