Squiggles Baby Quotes & Sayings

An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job. — Newt Gingrich

My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs. — Steve Jobs

Can you imagine throwing away all of your possessions once a year because you are secure in your expectation that you will be able to replace them in a matter of weeks? — Hope Jahren

The Doors really were a band of potheads. — Ray Manzarek

The 'secret' of Shostakovich, it was suggested - by a Chinese neurologist, Dr Dajue Wang - was the presence of a metallic splinter, a mobile shell-fragment, in his brain, in the temporal horn of the left ventricle. Shostakovich was very reluctant, apparently, to have this removed:
Since the fragment had been there, he said, each time he leaned his head to one side he could hear music. His head was filled with melodies - different each time - which he then made use of when composing.
X-rays allegedly showed the fragment moving around when Shostakovich moved his head, pressing against his 'musical' temporal lobe, when he tilted, producing an infinity of melodies which his genius could use. — Oliver Sacks

One of the things about a great team is that the whole exceeds the sum of its partners. — Tracy Hickman

Whether we like it or not, the ultimate goal of every science is to become trivial, to become a well-controlled apparatus for the solution of schoolbook exercises or for practical application in the construction of engines. — Aharon Katzir

It is easy for us to love what we can see. — Sunday Adelaja

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged. — Saul Landau

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain. — Christian Wiman

We don't have to agree with each other in order to think well together. There is no need for us to be joined at the head. We are joined by our human hearts. — Margaret J. Wheatley