Smilstvo Quotes & Sayings

While a lab Director can get done the things that he regards as important, he has the more important job of bringing out the best ideas of the broader scientific community. — Burton Richter

[A]ll change, even very large and powerful change, begins when a few people start talking with one another about something they care about. — Margaret J. Wheatley

The universe is a put-up job. — Fred Hoyle

I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there. — Karl Pilkington

No matter how much I may love - scratch that, loved, past tense - Josh, I was no dummy. Everyone knows the Y chromosome carries with it the instinctive urge to lie under pressure.
Which, incidentally, was what Josh was going to be under when I found him. Serious pressure.
On his larynx. — Gemma Halliday

What are sisters for if not to point out the things the rest of the world is too polite to mention. — Claire Cook

Everything is a little bit of darkness, even the light. — Antonio Porchia

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten. — Victor LaValle

Pride is the king of vices ... it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul ... other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues. — Fulton J. Sheen

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true. — Michael Wilbon

Even if your goose habitually lays golden eggs, it will still be cooked. — Neil Gaiman

I think a lot of young people have incredible ideas and incredible insights, but sometimes they wait before they go give their life to something. What I did was just to start a little earlier. — Elizabeth Holmes