Telescan Quotes & Sayings

I love drawing on lead. Romans used to curse each other with sheets of it. My slave would come slide the sheet under your door with a curse on it. They had amazing writing and drawings on them, and they survive to this day since lead is so stable. — Shea Hembrey

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company. — Lamar Alexander

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties. — Neil Gaiman

I will be guided by the Christian ethic and an awareness that human action is by nature transient. — Horst Koehler

A word of truth can mobilise two peoples looking for the road to reconciliation. — Donald Tusk

. . . our most important task is to get off our present collision course. And who is there to tackle such a task? I think every one of us, whether old or young, powerful or powerless, rich or poor, influential or uninfluential. — E.F. Schumacher

I came to explore the wreck. The words are purposes ... are maps ... I came to see the damage that was done and the treasures that prevail — Adrienne Rich

And the reason Luke is thinking about time and free will is because he believes that money is the closest human beings have ever come to crystallizing time and free will into a compact physical form. Cash. Cash is a time crystal. Cash allows you to multiply your will, and it allows you to speed up time. Cash is what defines us as a species. Nothing else in the universe has money. — Douglas Coupland

A person whose skin is metallic can no more have its reproduction restricted than a black-skinned person. Regarding life as a form of machinery and intelligent machines as people without our environmental limitations is essential in understanding FAP, the Final Anthropic Principle, which deals with evolution in the far future. — Frank Tipler

We are all broken shards of glass, rejected building stones, being fitted into a temple we cannot fully even imagine. — Russell D. Moore

respectability with overtones of — Maeve Binchy

Has this version of me been lurking there all along, somewhere deep below the surface, biding its time, waiting for its chance to make an appearance? — Cat Clarke