Scheherazade Rimsky Korsakov Quotes & Sayings

First of all, as you know, there are two kinds of people in the world: those who divide everyone into two kinds of people and those who don't. But actually, there are three kinds of people in the world: those who are good at math and those who aren't. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You've got a degree in philosophy; so you think you're cleverer than me. But I'm not just some drama queen. Cause it's where you're at, not where you've been. — Amy Winehouse

Cave basilischium! The rex of serpenti, tant pleno of poison that it all shines dehors! Che dicam, il veleno, even the stink comes dehors and kills you! Poisons you ... And it has black spots on his back, and a head like a coq, and half goes erect over the terra, and half on the terra like the other serpents. And it kills the bellula ... '
'The bellula?'
'Oc! Parvissimum animal, just a bit plus longue than the rat, and also called the musk-rat. And so the serpe and the botta. And when they bite it, the bellula runs to the fenicula or to the cicerbita and chews it, and comes back to the battaglia. And they say it generates through the oculi, but most say they are wrong.'
I asked him what he was doing with a basilisk and he said that was his business. — Umberto Eco

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body. — Joe Orton

The greatest genius is never so great as when it is chastised and subdued by the highest reason. — Charles Caleb Colton

Today's Declaration: I focus on what I want, not on what i don't want. — T. Harv Eker

The best musicians transpose consciousness into sound; painters do the same for color and shape. — Haruki Murakami

He held up a book then. "I'm going to read it to you for relax."
"Does it have any sports in it?"
"Fencing. Fighting. Torture. Poison. True Love. Hate. Revenge. Giants. Hunters. Bad men. Good men. Beautifulest Ladies. Snakes. Spiders ... Pain. Death. Brave men. Cowardly men. Strongest men. Chases. Escapes. Lies. Truths. Passion. Miracles."
"Sounds okay," I said and I kind of closed my eyes. — William Goldman

I wasn't really aware that my father was working for quite a while. I thought it was my mother who had all the money! — Peter Fonda

The most crucial problem with intellectual learning is that it receives the unknown on the grounds of the known. — Raheel Farooq