Scientiae Magistrum Quotes & Sayings

It's so funny to get a call from Dustin Hoffman because he has that great voice. — Andie MacDowell

Compared to what is stirring in the galaxy, you and I are little more than motes of dust. — Alan Dean Foster

How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. — Vincent Van Gogh

Let the ideas clash, let the swords sleep! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last — John Frusciante

Lincoln did more than any other man to put the stamp of righteousness, to put the stamp of compassion, on the name of America. — Henry Cabot Lodge

They are distinct enough that our crude instruments can pick up the differences, yet both are healthy instances of that staggeringly improbable, exquisitely engineered system we call a human being. — Steven Pinker

Interpreters, and have in a short time considered themselves superior to their masters. This was the case with Ficinus, Picus, Dr, Plenry Moore, and other psucdo Platonists, their contemporaries, who, in order to combine Christianity with the doctrines of Plato, rejected some of his most important tenets, and perverted others, and thus corrupted one of these systems, and afforded no real benefit to the other. — Anonymous

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare. — Gene Tunney

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book ... " and you forget that that doesn't help you so much. — Laurie Anderson

Of what's to come the wise perceive things about to happen. Sometimes during moments of intense study their hearing's troubled: the hidden sound of things approaching reaches them, and they listen reverently, while in the street outside the people hear nothing whatsoever. — C.P. Cavafy