Smatter Quotes & Sayings

Don' you worry, Harry. You'll learn fast enough. Everyone starts at the beginning at Hogwarts, you'll be just fine. Just be yerself. I know it's hard. Yeh've been singled out, an' that's always hard. But yeh'll have a great time at Hogwarts - I did - still do, 'smatter of fact. — J.K. Rowling

As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and - you may say - its backside. — Pippa Middleton

SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. — Ambrose Bierce

We know the Arts are the archives of our human history, the wind of invention and the heartbeat of humanity — Natasha Tsakos

You'll give up nothing to live your personal values at work. The same can't be said about choosing not to. — Stan Slap

I think it's time we had a president who carried the same life experiences into the White House as most ordinary Americans. — Dick Gephardt

We must risk delight. We can do without pleasure,
but not delight. Not enjoyment. We must have
the stubbornness to accept our gladness in the ruthless
furnace of this world. To make injustice the only
measure of our attention is to praise the Devil. — Jack Gilbert

Before the first atomic bomb test, scientists took the time to calculate whether the blast would ignite the nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere and incinerate us all. The risk was low and the test went off, but Rees wonders what the odds would have had to be to discourage the bomb makers. — Dennis Overbye

3I will stand and offer You my thanks, Eternal One, in the presence of others; I will sing of Your greatness among the nations no matter where I am. 4For Your amazing love soars overhead far into the heavens; Your truth rises up to the clouds where passing light bends. 5O God, that You would be lifted up above the heavens in the hearts of Your people until the whole earth knows Your glory. — Anonymous

Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination. — John Stewart Bell