Studia Quotes & Sayings

The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Pursuits become habits.
[Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.] — Ovid

You become a great composer when you win a Pulitzer. But I think that now it's a completely meaningless award. — John Corigliano

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you? — Ray Bradbury

And if you're not going to have a clear health threat, you don't want to panic people. — William Scranton

Drink up. I get more enjoyable the higher your blood alcohol content gets. — S.A. McAuley

I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world. — Mark Twain

There are none so blind as those who will not see. — Ann Aguirre

Luck is the residue of design. — John Milton

Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German - wipe them out! — Ilya Ehrenburg

Mathematics enjoys the greatest reputation as a diversion from sexuality. This had been the very advice to which Jean-Jacques Rousseau was obliged to listen from a lady who was dissatisfied with him: 'Lascia le donne e studia la matematica!' So too our fugitive threw himself with special eagerness into the mathematics and geometry which he was taught at school, till suddenly one day his powers of comprehension were paralysed in the face of some apparently innocent problems. It was possible to establish two of these problems; 'Two bodies come together, one with a speed of ... etc' and 'On a cylinder, the diameter of whose surface is m, describe a cone ... etc' Other people would certainly not have regarded these as very striking allusions to sexual events; but he felt that he had been betrayed by mathematics as well, and took flight from it too. — Sigmund Freud

At first sight nothing seems more obvious than that everything has a beginning and an end, and that everything can be subdivided into smaller parts. Nevertheless, for entirely speculative reasons the philosophers of Antiquity, especially the Stoics, concluded this concept to be quite unnecessary. The prodigious development of physics has now reached the same conclusion as those philosophers, Empedocles and Democritus in particular, who lived around 500 B.C.E. and for whom even ancient man had a lively admiration. — Svante Arrhenius

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them. — Dan O'Brien

The way everything seems to be working out right now, I wouldn't be surprised if I ended up dead before the night is over. — Jo Ann Beard