Sootsprite Quotes & Sayings

The man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain" (I.E., even while living) "in the congregation of the dead. — Herman Melville

The right note sounds right and the wrong note sounds wrong. — Francisco X Stork

In my view, philosophers have shown a great deal more respect for the first-person point of view than it deserves. There's a lot of empirical work on the various psychological mechanisms by way of which the first-person point of view is produced, and, when we understand this, I believe, we can stop romanticising and mythologising the first-person perspective. — Hilary Kornblith

When you are worried about thinking why you can't, you are losing the reasons why you should. — Ameya Agrawal

There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident. — Edmond H. Fischer

So what building are we breaking into? Give me all the information you've got and I'll hunt down the rest. By the way, when are we doing this?"
I glanced up. "Tonight."
Tonight? Oh, boy ... Miracles 'R' Us. I assume that we're not going to go and ask permission for this. — Kat Richardson

Give the wrong people a big challenge, and you'll induce anxiety. But give it to the right people, and you'll induce joy. — Eric Schmidt

Chivalry is dead. — Sienna Miller

Mr. Gradgrind, apprised of his wife's decease, made an expedition from London, and buried her in a business-like manner. He then returned with promptitude to the national cinder-heap, and resumed his sifting for the odds and ends he wanted, and his throwing of the dust about into they eyes of other people who wanted other odds and ends - in fact, he resumed his parliamentary duties. — Charles Dickens

We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to. — Bill Bryson