Syamsudin Nur Quotes & Sayings

If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
- From a letter to Robert Hooke dated February 5th, 1676.
The metaphor was first recorded in 1159 by John of Salisbury and attributed to Bernard of Chartres:
Dicebat Bernardus Carnotensis nos esse quasi nanos, gigantium humeris insidentes, ut possimus plura eis et remotiora videre, non utique proprii visus acumine, aut eminentia corporis, sed quia in altum subvenimur et extollimur magnitudine gigantea. — Isaac Newton

Sometimes I look around and wonder, how the hell did I get here? How is this my life? It all changed so fast. But then I stop wondering. Because how this life became mine doesn't really fucking matter. I'm just crazy-happy that it is. — Emma Chase

If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

One mistake is enough for all your life. So, where is the place of a mischief-maker? — Behnam Rajabpoor

Simply put, politics is about "who gets what, when, and — Daniel Shapiro

The easy way to make money is to get special political privilege. From the beginning of time, business has cozied up to government and gotten restrictions on competition and subsidies and stuff. — Charles Koch

If I have one more facelift I'll have a beard! — Dolly Parton

One would like to live poetically, that is, with gratitude and grace. — Marty Rubin

To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture. — Pablo Picasso

Well what I want them to know is just like, John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa. That's the kind of spirit that I have, too. — Michele Bachmann

Eden, it would be a lie if I told you I didn't want to kiss those perfect lips again. That's what I am fighting with at the moment, so no I do not want you to leave. I want you to stick around so you can continue to torment me. — Rachel Brookes