Shattucks Hesperia Quotes & Sayings

We don't normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology. — Ted Chiang

But with regard to the material world, we can at least go so far as this - we can perceive that events are brought about not by insulated interpositions of Divine power, exerted in each particular case, but by the establishment of general laws." - Whewell: "Bridgewater Treatise". — Charles Darwin

The Prescription Drug Benefit we passed in Congress is already working to make prescription drugs available and affordable for all seniors who depend on them, through the drug card that became available last year. — Mark Kennedy

If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it. — John Ratey

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth. — Morris West

For Madison, on the other hand, "a Public Debt is a Public curse," and "in a Representative Government greater than in any other."26 — Joseph J. Ellis

I'll never like virtual keypads. Nothing can compete with an actual QWERTY-style keypad. — Joe Trohman

I love taxonomies, categories, ways of dividing people into groups. — Gretchen Rubin

Still loving the sport; still working on the focus. — Phillip Thomas

I had never been allowed to invite friends on my birthday, and nor was I on this one. I was sullen and surly, I ate the cake without a word ... — Karl Ove Knausgard

I went in right up front and said, This can't be about some guy in bandages. I didn't even want to do a horror movie. I took the concept and made a romantic adventure film. I like action heroes who don't take themselves too seriously. I wanted to make everyone take the mummy seriously, but it couldn't just be a guy in bandages. But the main thing was to build in surprises. That's one of the great things you can do with special effects. — Stephen Sommers

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The world is full of confusion and contradiction. We cannot expect to do anything that is absolutely right. We can only measure rightness by the truth within ourselves. And our own truth will never be quite the same as somebody else's. I wish that I could touch you and be sure that it was the right thing to do. I only want to touch you briefly. Just once so that you will know. We are flesh and blood and full of faults. But we are also full of warmth. The world is full of confusion but there is compassion in its midst. communication via simple touch can transmit so much of us in just one minute. Like a painting or a piece of music. I want to touch your soul. I only wish I could be sure it was the right thing to do. — Jay Woodman

To be himself, one neeeds to be free from the pressure of evaluative praise — Haim Ginott