Tiburzi Quotes & Sayings

For some extraordinary reason, there is a fixed notion that it is more liberal to disbelieve in miracles than to believe in them. — G.K. Chesterton

Eureka!"s like the one Archimedes had when he stepped in a bathtub and suddenly realized the answer to the problem of testing metals' density are few and far between, and mostly it's just trying and failing and trying something else, feeding in data and eliminating variables and staring at the results, trying to figure out where you went wrong. — Connie Willis

I only asked because, well, I am too. And I thought it would be nice to have someone to talk to. — Ella Frank

Intelligence helps you build a ship; wisdom helps you cross the ocean. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Didn't you have any sadistic nannies who told you these tales to keep you quiet and well behaved at night? Heavens, what's to become of the Empire if governesses have lost their touch for scaring the wits out of their girls? — Libba Bray

Kyle Busch has got to be the loneliest NASCAR driver ever. He's led so many laps he never sees anybody in front of him for two-thirds of the race. He just sees clean racetrack ... He's the Maytag guy. — Kyle

Every day that you attempt to see things as they are in truth Is a supremely successful day. — Vernon Howard

Churning, baking, spinning and soap-making. In summer, — Elizabeth Enright

The devil lies brooding in the miser's chest. — Thomas Fuller

Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect. They need at least a doctor who understands the disease. How can you expect Cottard to be able to treat you? He has made allowances for the difficulty of digesting sauces, for gastric trouble, but he has made no allowance for the effect of reading Shakespeare. — Marcel Proust

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world. — Agnes Martin

Who can say what astonishments are hidden inside the most mundane being? — Kate DiCamillo

The student of politics must study the soul. — Aristotle.