Shadwell Quotes & Sayings

No man is happy but by comparison. — Thomas Shadwell

Ol' man river,
Dat ol' man river
He mus'know sumpin'
But don't say nuthin',
He jes'keeps rollin'
He keeps on rollin' along. — Oscar Hammerstein II

Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I've been a vegetarian since I was 19. — Erykah Badu

You can pregrow a village with no consequence on the land. In fact, with a positive carbon contribution. — Mitchell Joachim

A lot of the films I like are more than fantasies - they're movies fascinated by the technology of space exploration, and they try to honor the laws of physics. I watched the Gregory Peck movie 'Marooned' over and over when I was a kid. — Alfonso Cuaron

All progress is experimental. — John Jay Chapman

In Shadwell's simple world, anyone in sunglasses who wasn't actually on a beach was probably a criminal. — Terry Pratchett

But he found he rather liked Shadwell. People often did, much to Shadwell's annoyance. The Rajits liked him because he always eventually paid his rent and didn't cause any trouble, and was racist in such a glowering, undirected way that it was quite inoffensive; it was simply that Shadwell hated everyone in the world, regardless of caste, color, or creed, and wasn't going to make any exceptions for anyone. Madame — Terry Pratchett

The haste of a fool is the slowest thing in the world. — Thomas Shadwell

Every man loves what he is good at. — Thomas Shadwell

He was like a bright and beautiful rogue planet. He pulled the entire galaxy into a gravitational wobble until he got close enough to suck you in and tilt your axis head over heels. — Natasha Boyd

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water. — Thomas Shadwell

Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole. — Terry Pratchett

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind. — Thomas Shadwell

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart. — Thomas Shadwell

Others may fashion more smoothly images of bronze (I for one believe it), evoke living faces from marble, plead causes better, trace with a wand the wanderings of the heavens and foretell the rising of stars. But you, Roman, remember to rule the peoples with power (these will be your arts); impose the habit of peace, spare the vanquished and war down the proud! — Virgil

Hope is a very thin diet. — Thomas Shadwell