Serebriakova Paintings Quotes & Sayings

A mouse can fall down a mine shaft a third of a mile deep without injury. A rat falling the same distance would break his bones; a man would simply splash ... Elephants have their legs thickened to an extent that seems disproportionate to us, but this is necessary if their unwieldy bulk is to be moved at all ... A 60-ft. man would weigh 1000 times as much as a normal man, but his thigh bone would have its area increased by only 100 times ... Consequently such an unfortunate monster would break his legs the moment he tried to move.

[Expressing, in picturesque terms, the strength of an organism relative to its bulk.] — John Scott Haldane

(Picture of a pirate standing on a treasure chest) It's not about the chest, it's all about the booty. — Jarod Kintz

I had a longing for ritual, something I could cling to, a routine to make me feel well and contented. I hoped that reading Bible commentaries and theological critiques would nudge me closer to some kind of absolute that I could hold up as a torch to light my way. — Jack Dee

Fancy borrows much from memory, and so looks back to the past. — Giovanni Ruffini

Agreeing to differ.
[Lat., Discors concordia.] — Ovid

The people no longer has confidence in its former protectors, now its exploiters and executioners. The masks have fallen. — Jose Rizal

Who knows how many people are invisible because their stories don't fit our categories? — Marilyn Johnson

I had always held everything in before. — Neil Diamond