Tidier Crossword Quotes & Sayings

The practical case for manned spacef light gets ever-weaker with each advance in robots and miniaturisation - indeed, as a scientist or practical man, I see little purpose in sending people into space at all. But as a human being, I'm an enthusiast for manned missions. — Martin Rees

Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing. — Gary Oldman

It's very rare that someone gets the death penalty for charges of conspiracy, for his influence, for his Svengali-Rasputin act. — Raymond Pettibon

Whether we appreciate it or not, we live out our lives surrounded by an intricate pattern of social connections ... We're all embedded in this network; it affects us profoundly and we may be unaware of its existence, of its effect on us. — Nicholas A. Christakis

Comparing to another activity is useful if it helps you formulate questions, it's dangerous when you use it to justify answers. — Martin Fowler

Love, which teacheth me that thou and I am one — William Shakespeare

People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don't want to learn it themselves. — Vladimir Putin

Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people think fairy tales are simple stories but they are not. I guess I agree. My trouble is I have no talent for thinking up plots. The best I can do is come up with a good beginning. My book of story ideas is really just a book of story beginnings. Still and all, that is something. — Kristin Kladstrup

If you listen to Louis Armstrong from 1929, you will never hear anything better than that really, and you will never hear anything more free than that. — Steve Lacy

It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic coaching for his scholastic difficulties. — Alice Duer Miller

I need to cry some more. I'll drown if I don't...Sometimes you're swimming in unwept tears and you'll go under if you store them up inside. — Nina George

Although rap is about boasting, it's also about honesty and expressing your emotions. — Keith Stanfield

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister. — Robert Breault

If you want to appreciate the Sun, be a miner; to value the land, be a sailor and to long for freedom, get married! — Mehmet Murat Ildan