Solferino Quintana Quotes & Sayings

I'm more of a perfectionist. I need to be sure everything is exactly where I would want it. — Spencer Krug

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate sound, and find it musical. — Henry David Thoreau

Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor
which means
By soft words must love be fostered — Janet Aylmer

Do not make the error of considering my son a child, the Duke said. And he smiled. — Frank Herbert

Recall Part 3c's mention of how Cantor took what had been regarded as a paradoxical, totally unhandlable feature of (Infinity)-namely that an infinite set/class/aggregate can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with its own subset-and transformed it into the technical def. of infinite set. Watch how he does the same thing here, turning what appear to be devastating objections into rigorous criteria, by defining a set S as any aggregate of collection of discrete entities that satisfies two conditions: (1) S can be entertained by the mind as an aggregate, and (2) There is some stated rule or condition via which one can determine, for any entity x, whether or not x is a member of S. — David Foster Wallace

If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated. — Epictetus

Politicians were famous for double-speak and were consummate liars. That's why George W. Bush had to be their favorite president. It's easier to commit a fraud when the actor believes his lie to the point of a conviction — Kenneth Eade

There is no stranger under the cherry tree. — Kobayashi Issa

The race question is subsidiary to the class question in politics, and to think of imperialism in terms of race is disastrous. But to neglect the racial factor as merely incidental is an error only less grave than to make it fundamental. — C.L.R. James

I think I'm a very intuitive actress. — Carice Van Houten

Dudes know I'm not a threat. Chicks know I'm not a threat. — Kevin Smith

We have no intention of ignoring or appeasing history's latest gang of fanatics trying to murder their way to power. — Dick Cheney

Everyone knows the link between the environment and their own health. — Ma Jun

The Holy One's nearness, the readiness to name the Holy One as God, and the recognition of God as Father. — James Carroll

There are a good number of people creating black metal and black metal inspired music in the northwest. Much of this music is radically noncommercial and exists only on a very local, private level. — Kristoffer Rygg