Smailik Quotes & Sayings

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking. — Bill Nye

I hadn't been able to trust since the age of four. I was torn between wanting to be cradled and telling the world to go fuck itself, and those were opposite sides of the same coin. — Betsy Lerner

We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. — Stephen Downes

The subtleties of the mind cannot be transmitted in words, but can be seen in words. — Juefan Huihong

The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and, out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it. — Samuel Pepys

Don't stop with your first draft. — P. J. Plauger

I didn't stand for anything. If I wanted to matter - even just to myself - I would have to be less free, by deciding to choose in some kind of definite way. — David Foster Wallace

Every act of goodness it's born from our desire to be happy. — Udai Yadla

Civil liberties are a great heritage for Americans. They are not rights that the government gives to the people, they are the rights that the people carved out for themselves when they created the government. — Edward Bennett Williams

So why didn't I switch schools? The other good schools I could have sent Bee to ... well, to get to them, I'd have to drive past a Buca di Beppo. I hated my life enough without having to drive past a Buca di Beppo four times a day. — Maria Semple