Usiforma Quotes & Sayings

A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia. — Jack Horner

As a general comment on baseball:"90% of the game is half mental." — Yogi Berra

When my son David was a high school senior in 2003, his graduating class went on a camping trip in the desert. A creative writing educator visited the camp and led the group through an exercise designed to develop their sensitivity and imaginations. Each student was given a pen, a notebook, a candle, and matches. They were told to walk a short distance into the desert, sit down alone, and "discover themselves." The girls followed instructions. The boys, baffled by the assignment, gathered together, threw the notebooks into a pile, lit them with the matches, and made a little bonfire. — Christina Hoff Sommers

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept. — Mikhail Gorbachev

True eloquence is irresistible. It charms by its images of beauty, it enforces an argument by its vehement simplicity. Orators whose speeches are "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing," only prevail where truth is not understood, for knowledge and simplicity are the foundation of all true eloquence. Eloquence abounds in beautiful and natural images, sublime but simple conceptions, in passionate but plain words. Burning words appeal to the emotions as well as to the intellect; they stir the soul and touch the heart. — Albert Ellery Bergh

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river. — Michael Neill

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance? — W.B.Yeats

I've never been poor, only broke. Being poor is a frame of mind. Being broke is only a temporary situation. — Mike Todd

God, through the Law, His alien
work, brings man to despair and humility and to a recognition of his
need, and through the Gospel, His appropriate work, He gives man faith
and the knowledge of His forgiveness. — Joel R. Beeke

When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the Commander to conceal his: above all to conceal doubt, fear, and distrust. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Dionysus invented wine, which so impressed his father Zeus that he promoted Dionysus to god. The guy who invented prune juice, by contrast, got sentenced to the Fields of Punishment. — Rick Riordan

Scepticism is a barren coast, without a harbor or lighthouse. — Henry Ward Beecher

It takes only five minutes to look nice before you go out. — Evelyn Lauder

To be sure, the Road of Excess leads to the Palace of Wisdom, even when it takes you through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders. Just watch out for parasites. — Samuel R. Delany