Thingthat Quotes & Sayings

Translating from one language to another, unless it is from Greek and Latin, the queens of all languages, is like looking at Flemish tapestries from the wrong side, for although the figures are visible, they are covered by threads that obscure them, and cannot be seen with the smoothness and color of the right side. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

Our great mistake in education is ... the worship of book-learning-the confusion of instruction and education. We strain the memory instead of cultivating the mind ... We ought to follow exactly the opposite course with children-to give them a wholesome variety of mental food, and endeavour to cultivate their tastes, rather than to fill their minds with dry facts. — John Lubbock

This country will kill you in a heartbeat and still people love it. — Cormac McCarthy

Confuse your trail, lose your trail. — Vikas Swarup

If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real. — Rush Limbaugh

Don't appear so scholarly, pray. Humanize your talk, and speak to be understood. — Moliere

Our information lives will be better served when we are free to get to our information from wherever we are, with any device available. — Donald Norman

It's the story of New York. Storefronts change and languages change, but at the end of the day, people come here to find opportunity like my family did. — Sal Albanese

It's one of the nice things about this nation that when the Constitution is violated, if it affects you, you can bring a suit. — Michael Newdow

Religious experience, as we have studied it, cannot be cited as unequivocally supporting the infinitist belief. The only thingthat it unequivocally testifies to is that we can experience union with something larger than ourselves and in that union find our greatest peace. — William James