Top Shelf Liquor Quotes & Sayings

down. Remember Zivelena, who became the Queen of Metinna with the help of the gnome Rumplestelt, and in return promised him her firstborn? — Andrzej Sapkowski

As fascinated as I was by words on paper, it was matched by my fascination with words in people's mouths. The spoken word. And that is the world of theatre. — Athol Fugard

Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women. — Anne M. Mulcahy

What the founders of modern science, among them Galileo, had to do, was not to criticize and to combat certain faulty theories, and to correct or to replace them by better ones. They had to do something quite different. They had to destroy one world and to replace it by another. They had to reshape the framework of our intellect itself, to restate and to reform its concepts, to evolve a new approach to Being, a new concept of knowledge, a new concept of science-and even to replace a pretty natural approach, that of common sense, by another which is not natural at all. — Alexandre Koyre

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it. — Louis Nizer

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating. — Sharon Salzberg

Suffer barbaric childhood to give and receive remorselessly; civilized age learns to protect what it has, to neither give nor accept freely, to trust it's own mistrust above faith, and intriguing others above the innocent. Intrigue, after all, is rational, something the mind can sink it's teeth into, and defeat it with the good digestion of reason, a hopeless prospect for the toothless heart, and God only knows what innocence will do next. — William Gaddis

If taken at face value, the miraculous explanation would tell us that science is not worth the trouble, that it will never yield the answers we seek, and that nature will forever be beyond all human understanding. Sterile and nonproductive in its consequences, the claim of miracle would put a lid on curiosity, experimentation, and the human creative imagination. — Kenneth R. Miller

He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion. — Oscar Wilde

Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers. — James Surowiecki

I'm a realist and a dreamer. There are certain things you can give certain people and certain things you can't. — Amy Winehouse

When I want to know your opinion, I'll consult your entrails. — Rachel Caine