Somni Quotes & Sayings

I believe climate change is real, but I reject the cap and trade solution of John - of, you know, of Al Gore. He's made a religion. It's a problem. — Lindsey Graham

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet Grace must still look so. — William Shakespeare

A dinery server behaving like a pureblood attracts trouble; trouble attracts blame; blame demands a scrapegoat. — David Mitchell

Modern dynamical systems theory has a relatively short history. It begins with Poincare (of course) ... [to whom] a global understanding of the gross behavior of all solutions of the system was more important than the local behavior of particular, analytically-precise solutions. — Robert L. Devaney

Why ask a question whose answer would demand ten more questions? — David Mitchell

One of America's strengths has always been its openness to the new: both new ideas and new people. — Cesar Pelli

I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error. — David Mitchell

I never set out to do anything unusual or newsworthy. I just like to
study and learn, and I've always been that way. — Nola Ochs

Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please yourself, and you begin to follow your own instincts - only then can you be successful. You become more satisfied, and when you are, other people will tend to be satisfied by what you do. — Raquel Welch

He (Tom Riley) gestured toward the canvases in the main room. "What are they, really? I mean, no bullshit. Because - I wouldn't say this to very many people - they remind me of the way life was inside my head when I wasn't taking my pills."
"They're just make-believe," I (Edgar) said. "Shadows."
"I know about shadows," he said. "You just want to be careful they don't grow teeth. Because they can. Then, sometimes when you reach for the light-switch to make them go away, you discover the power's out. — Stephen King

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing. — Hilary Swank

Beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within; for as 'tis with Great Houses, so, too, with Great Men. — Erica Jong

Your character should always be stronger than your circumstances. — Dave Willis

We are going to a new world ... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world. — Voltaire

Israel lost its war. Will Assad's enemies lose, too? — Robert Fisk

A handful of gems from Somni:
"One's environment is a key to one's identity."
"An impulse can be both vaguely understood and strong."
"What is knowledge for, if not used to better our/one's existence?"
"My IQ may be higher but she looked more content then I felt. — David Mitchell

For some strange reason, we believe that anyone who lived before we were born was in some peculiar way a different kind of human being from any we have come in contact with in our own lifetime. This concept must be changed; we must realize in our bones that almost everything in time and history has changed except the human being. — Uta Hagen