Skoe Mitchell Quotes & Sayings

The reality is more complicated, but as with most humans, the people on Earth prefer the simple answer. — John Scalzi

On the 1st of August, 1774, I endeavoured to extract air from mercurius calcinates per se [mercury oxide]; and I presently found that, by means of this lens, air was expelled from it very readily. ... I admitted water to it [the extracted air], and found that it was not imbibed by it. But what surprized me more than I can well express, was, that a candle burned in this air with a remarkably vigorous flame ... I was utterly at a loss how to account for it. — J.B. Priestley

How does the poet transform his banal thoughts (are not most thoughts banal?) into such stunning forms, into beauty? — Joyce Carol Oates

Most of the circuits in our brains run on automatic. The more you think a thought, the more energy goes into that circuit. Eventually it gets enough energy to run the thought automatically without us needing to put more energy into it. — Jill Bolte Taylor

To give a clear picture of the whole scene of Italian gastronomy. — Anna Del Conte