Siftings Herald Quotes & Sayings

When I meet people after stand-up shows, they'll bring their cars. — Adam Ferrara

I think that every single person should play sports. — Donovan Bailey

Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. — Larry Wall

As the director of an opera, it is my responsibility to unify the style of the particular performance, but one can certainly approach the piece from different points of view. That's what makes it interesting and keeps it alive. — Sarah Caldwell

Elections are the formal processes by which those decisions are recorded. The regulation of the quantity, content and timing of political speech is clearly unrelated to regulating an election's "time" or "place." Can — Anonymous

And everyone was selecting their leaders not by their ability to lead, but by where they stood on this single issue. It was beyond madness. — Neal Shusterman

My business is to paint what I see, not what I know is there. — J. M. W. Turner

TV, it's a director's medium, and they wanna make it look interesting. To be rehearsing mostly for the sake of where you're standing so they can do the lighting, that's what I don't like. — Janeane Garofalo

The more we know about the former world, the better we'll understand what happened when it fell. — Emily St. John Mandel

Looking more closely at Earth's atmospheric fingerprints, human biomarkers will also include sulfuric, carbonic, and nitric acids, and other components of smog from the burning of fossil fuels. If the curious aliens happen to be socially, culturally, and technologically more advanced than we are, then they will surely interpret these biomarkers as convincing evidence for the absence of intelligent life on Earth. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

A jealous lover lights his torch from the firebrand of the fiend. — Edmund Burke

Don't pretend to be what you are not. Don't refuse to be what you are. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

Well you know boys, a nuclear reactor is a lot like women. You just have to read the manual and press the right button. — Matt Groening