Tralatitiously Quotes & Sayings

What is intelligence, anyway It is only a word that people use to name those unknown processes with which our brains solve problems we call hard. But whenever you learn a skill yourself, you're less impressed or mystified when other people do the same. This is why the meaning of 'intelligence' seems so elusive: It describes not some definite thing but only the momentary horizon of our ignorance about how minds might work. — Marvin Minsky

Originally I was opposed to gay assimilation and targeted gay marriage as just another effort on the part of gays to resemble their straight neighbours. — Edmund White

All of my family is so close. We're always over at each other's houses. — Buddy Valastro

David was catnip and kryptonite to me. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I must use Ferrari to the maximum. My priority is to get results. Then we will see what happens. — Jean Alesi

Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some "future" events may be likelier than others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath. — Vladimir Nabokov

Quantum mechanics - the physics of our world - requires that you hold such pedestrian complaints in abeyance. — Brian Greene