Umjesto Gluposti Quotes & Sayings

I think it is terribly important to have opinions, and to think. We live in a world of action without thought. — Vivienne Westwood

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night. — E. M. Forster

If you are offended by reading views that disagree with yours, then yes, you will be offended. However, it is not gratuitously offensive, it simply puts an argument, and if your views are strong enough, as I believe they are, you will be able to defend your views. You will not say, "Oh, it's offensive, it's offensive." You will say "No, you are wrong here and you are wrong here," and that's what you should do. — Richard Dawkins

The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods. — Ezra Taft Benson

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that. — Matthew Tobin Anderson

The generation of seeds ... is therefore marvelous and analogous to the other productions of living things. For first of all an umbilicus appears ... Its extremity gradually expands and after gathering a colliquamentous ichor becomes analogous to an amnion ... In the course of time the seed or fetus begins to become visible. — Marcello Malpighi

Discoveries cannot be planned, they pop up, like Puck, in unexpected corners — Max Perutz

I needed to talk about my real personal history, in order to become free of it. — Paulo Coelho

Mina's mouth dropped open, and he bent his head as if to kiss her. She jammed her gun barrel under his chin. He grinned. — Meljean Brook

This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those portolano-makers who saturated the coastlines with the names of harbours, the names of capes, the names of inlets, until in the end the land was only separated from the sea by a continuous ribbon of text. Is the aleph, that place in Borges from which the entire world is visible simultaneously, anything other than an alphabet? — Georges Perec

We have to bring in captivity every high thing in people's mind. — Sunday Adelaja

Great mathematics is achieved by solving difficult problems not by fabricating elaborate theories in search of a problem. — Harold Davenport

How wicked I was to wish that something dramatic would happen!' she thought. 'Oh, if we could only have those dear, monotonous, pleasant days back again! I would *never* grumble about them again. — Lucy Maud Montgomery

It's not that MySpace lost and Facebook won. It's that MySpace won first, and Facebook won next. They'll go down in the same order. — Douglas Rushkoff

The U.S. people have a major role to play to solve, to save this planet. — Hugo Chavez