Superman Brainiac Attacks Quotes & Sayings

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines ... it will drive the nonsense out of your head! — Leo Tolstoy

Remember, a word is an invention, a symbol for an idea. Written text began as an artistic representation of a thought or event. — Edward J. Fraughton

It's hard. We're taught that in life, we should try to look on the bright side, to be optimistic. Not in this case. In this case, look on the dark side. Assume rejection first. Assume you're the rule, not the exception. It's intoxicatingly liberating. — Liz Tuccillo

There is no argument so cogent not only in demonstrating, the indestructibility of the soul, but also in showing that it always preserves in its nature traces of all its preceding states with a practical remembrance which can always be aroused. Since it has the consciousness of or knows in itself what each one calls his me. This renders it open to moral qualities, to chastisement and to recompense even after this life, for immortality without remembrance would be of no value. — Gottfried Leibniz

A "question" is a microscope of words. — Ted Agon

Entertainment and learning are not opposites; entertainment may be the most effective mode of learning. — Herbert Marcuse

People never like to talk about their slower relatives. I got a cousin, twice removed, got webs between his toes, ain't said one word his whole life. You never hear about him in the family newsletter that goes around every Christmas. Hell, nobody mentions me, either, if it comes to that. Families is funny about who they advertise. — Susan Juby

I consider Bush's decision to call for a war against terrorism a serious mistake. He is elevating these criminals to the status of war enemies, and one cannot lead a war against a network if the term war is to retain any definite meaning. — Jurgen Habermas

In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad. — Lance Bass

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others. — Matthew Simpson

There's no way that you can stop nature. — Luis Negron

I would say critically of myself that I am somebody without secrets. Sometimes acting depends on you having a secret. I don't think I've ever had that. — Simon Callow

The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance. — Albert Einstein

The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but they are not writing. You know, they really badly want to write a book but they are not writing it. The only advice I can give them is to just write it, get to the end of it. And, you know, if it's not good enough, write another one. — Teju Cole