Simoun El Quotes & Sayings

I am beautiful for a brainy woman, brainy for a beautiful woman, but objectively speaking, neither beautiful nor brainy. — Rebecca Goldstein

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson — Edward M. Hallowell

Rabbi Loew of sixteenth-century Prague. He is supposed to have formed an artificial human being - a robot - out of clay, just as God had formed Adam out of clay. A clay object, however much it might resemble a human being, is "an unformed substance" (the Hebrew word for it is "golem"), since it lacks the attributes of life. Rabbi Loew, however, gave his golem the attributes of life by making use of the sacred name of God, and set the robot to work protecting the lives of Jews against their persecutors. — Isaac Asimov

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee. — Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Life is the great teacher. An unforgiving task master at times. Its lessons are not easily forgotten — Jocelyn Murray

There was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill. — M. Thomas Gammarino

The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction. — Bruce Lee

There were absolutely amazing photographs everywhere, on everyone's Facebook page and everyone's iPhone and Instagram, just floating around in cyberspace for eternity. People took hundreds and thousands of digital pictures; one or two, even twenty or a hundred, were bound to be great. All anyone had to do was click through them all and post the ones they liked, deleting the rest. But using film meant you never knew what was going to be a good picture, let alone a great one, until you were standing there looking at a contact sheet with a magnifying glass and deciding which to print.
Maybe nobody cared anymore, but then again, writers probably felt the same way when word processors were invented. Anyone with a story and a keyboard could write their memoir now, write the great American novel, or tweet a 140-character trope that gets retweeted and it read by hundreds of people every hour of every day. — Nora Raleigh Baskin

This may all sound nonsensical. Well, India is a country of nonsense. It is nonsensical to parch one's throat with thirst when a kindly Mahomedan is ready to offer pure water to drink. And yet thousands of Hindus would rather die of thirst than drink water from a Mahomedan household. These nonsensical men can also, once they are convinced that their religion demands that they should wear garments manufactured in India only and eat food only grown in India, decline to wear any other clothing or eat any other food. — Mahatma Gandhi

Alistair smiled. 'How long this war has been.'
'I'll say. One hardly remembers how we lived before. Lightly - not worrying much.'
'Do you suppose we shall ever live that way again?'
'Oh, who knows? Given sufficient champagne and ether.'
'Maybe if we stay drunk to the end of our days we shan't remember. — Chris Cleave

For me, personally, there is one really interesting thing. You're all a bit too young for that, but when you get to a certain level of experience, accumulation of experience you start slowly to once in a while get a whiff of the feeling, I'd love to be twenty years younger but with what I know and have experienced at this point. — Christoph Waltz

Study is the child of silence and mystery. — Henri Murger

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio. — Eric Maisel

There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. — Rollo May

Bill Door was impressed. Miss Flitworth could actually give the word "revenue", which had two vowels and one diphthong, all the peremptoriness of the word "scum. — Terry Pratchett