Thereabout Quotes & Sayings

Until 1930 or thereabout biologists [using microscopes], in the situation of Astronomers and Astrophysicists, were permitted to see the objects of their interest, but not to touch them; the cell was as distant from us, as the stars and galaxies were from them. — Albert Claude

The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I know that other gymnasts can do so with a smile, but I can't. And I don't even try to. — Ludmilla Tourischeva

Whoever makes the fewest persons uneasy, is the best bred man in company. — Jonathan Swift

There is no animal more invincible than a woman, — Loretta Chase

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises. — Mo Ibrahim

When I die, I wonder what will happen to me. Is there some place like heaven, and will I be able to meet you there someday? I don't know. There's no way to know. No one knows what comes after death. But at the very least, we won't be able to talk until then.

There's a wide, deep and fast running river between the living and the dead. Once you cross that river, no matter what happens, you're never coming back. It's a one way trip. — Ao Jyumonji

A lantern can give you light only when you light it — Munia Khan

Hold on, Claire Bear! Next stop, Crazytown! — Rachel Caine

My son - and what's a song? A thing begot within a pair of minutes, thereabout, a lump bred up in darkness. — Thomas Kyd

Out in the Pool certain other boats caught the eye ... each carried a bright fire amidships, in a brazier, beside a man, two small barrels of beer, and a very large handbell. The men were purlmen, Grandfather Nat told me, selling hot beer in the cold mornings - to the men on the colliers, or on any other craft thereabout. — Arthur Morrison

Preps are like cheerleaders, except less jumpy — Katie Alender

It is the job of each artist to believe in the possibility of meaningful, substantial, and sustainable change. — Eric Maisel

What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of — Steve Harvey

Until one has indeed become the brother of all, there will be no brotherhood. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

At times it seems as if arranging to have no commitment of any kind to anyone would be a special freedom. But in fact the whole idea works in reverse. The most deadly commitment of all is to be committed only to one's self. Some come to realize this after they are in the nursing home. — John D. MacDonald

I was a very outgoing, gregarious, full-of-energy kid. — Sutton Foster

Much of the image of the amazingness of America comes from the movies into other cultures. And it's much the same thing when you reverse it. Much of Africa is presented through poverty, through drought and war. [But] you're not presenting people, you're not presenting countries, you're not presenting complexity, and so people can't care about an amorphous mass called Africa. — Chris Abani

Speech, after all, is in some measure an expression of character, and flexibility in its use is a good way to tell your friends from the robots. — Jacques Barzun