Van Diest Chemical Quotes & Sayings

A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the West or in the jungles of the East. Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself
and not a taper lighted at the hearthstone of the race, which pales before the light of common day. — Henry David Thoreau

Contemporary research shows that happy people are more altruistic, more productive, more helpful, more likable, more creative, more resilient, more interested in others, friendlier, and healthier. Happy people make better friends, colleagues, and citizens. — Gretchen Rubin

The world is filled with heroes and wannabes, so let me just play the villain. — Ahmed Mostafa

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization. — Chris Alexander

You can choose a direction that will take you into something that isn't going to take you where you want to go, or you can choose another direction which is down the right pathway. — Kerry Stokes

I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable. — Terry Brooks

Mark: "A strange evening, forsooth," he said.
Emma: "Don't you forsooth me. — Cassandra Clare

My imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me. — F Scott Fitzgerald

The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless. — Dominique Bouhours

A man's library is a sort of harem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you mention any ideological thing about shooting 'Last Tango in Paris,' I was thinking I was doing a political film. — Bernardo Bertolucci

Why, on my mother's birthday, am I thinking about 'Father Knows Best?' At our house, mother knew best at least as often as father did, but then the title of the old sitcom, a homogenized portrait of American family life, was meant to be slightly sardonic. — Tom Shales

Gratifying when the basics reflect a fresh light, leading to real continuing ed. — Phillip Gary Smith

90% of learning comes through encouragement. — Kevin Thoman