Tijen Arik Quotes & Sayings

Stan and I funded the first phase of the work ourselves. It was secret. — Martin Fleischmann

Symbolic value of the pickling process: all the six hundred million eggs which gave birth to the population of India could fit inside a single, standard-sized pickle-jar; six hundred million spermatozoa could be lifted on a single spoon. Every pickle-jar (you will forgive me if I become florid for a moment) contains, therefore, the most exalted of possibilities: the feasibility of the chutnification of history; the grand hope of the pickling of time! — Salman Rushdie

History, by definition, cannot be experienced directly. As it is happening, it is the present, and that is philosophy's realm. — Brandon Sanderson

It was a little difficult to take him seriously when he sang along to a song about a woman taking another woman's man. — Holly Hood

There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America. — Otto Von Bismarck

How hard could husbanding be? Don't drink, don't gamble, don't bring hunting dogs to the table. Don't be terrified of tooth-drawers. Don't be stupid about money. Don't go for a soldier. No hitting girls. He wasn't drawn to violate any of these prohibitions. Assuming older sisters weren't classified as girls. Maybe make that, No hitting girls first. — Lois McMaster Bujold

A traveller must buy his own experience, and success or failure depends mainly on personal idiosyncrasies. — Isabella Bird

Patience is a virtue, and Americans have it in short supply, — Ann McLane Kuster

A cosmic mystery of immense proportions, once seemingly on the verge of solution, has deepened and left astronomers and astrophysicists more baffled than ever. The crux ... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing. — William Broad

It is only through the morning gate of the beautiful that you can penetrate into the realm of knowledge. That which we feel here as beauty we shall one day know as truth. — Friedrich Schiller

It better to win by the power of love than by the power of might. — Debasish Mridha

A writer is just like anyone else, he cannot know everything, nor can he experience everything, he must ask and imagine, — Jose Saramago

We can't even resist making antimatter, so what makes you think we are going to leave cloning technology untapped? (Douglas Parsley) — Alan Chains

Blot out vain pomp; check impulse; quench appetite;
keep reason under its own control. — Marcus Aurelius