Versified Crossword Quotes & Sayings

People work out, they stress their body, and their body gets stronger from stress. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Guards! Take the bastard out and beat him! (Styxx)
Tell me something, brother. What angers you most about me? The fact I share your face or the fact I know exactly what your best friend wants to do to you ... and how often? Good to see you again, Lord Dorus, especially clothed. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

the mission and purpose of the church was summed up into three words that I believe are the crux of our faith: Christ, cause, and community. — Jarrid Wilson

Know what happened to these Alexandrian manuscripts? The Roman Catholics used them as the foundation for their Bible. Then they spent nine centuries hunting down the real Bible to destroy it. But faithful Christians protected it - even with their blood. — David W. Daniels

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing. — Alex Berenson

A thousand pounds for clothes
when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! — Dodie Smith I Capture The Castle

We live in a flat; my wife would be happy if we had a house with stairs. Or a little cottage in the country. — Fergus Henderson

When I moved out of London 13 years ago, I found a whole other reason not to drive. This was because my new husband Dan, unlike my dad, did drive, and this became a great source of fun and adventure. — Julie Burchill

Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs. — Imogen Binnie

Childhood is a branch of cartography. — Michael Chabon

And he waited. He felt like he was going to throw up. What the fuck was he doing? Hadn't he learned anything? It was one thing to flirt about sex, but this wasn't flirting. This was pulling your heart out of your chest and giving it to someone who might not like blood all over their floor. He'd already put himself out there with the note and now he wasn't even pretending to be subtle. Physical sadist and emotional masochist. — Arden Aoide

The effectiveness of advertising depends on the amount and kind of product information available to consumers ... advertising will be more successful the more impoverished the consumer's information environment. — Michael Schudson

When you are playing, it is so hard to think about what life will be like after football. I understand. When you are playing, and you are young, you think you can play your whole life. You think it will never change. But it will change. You can't play forever. No one can. — Steve Largent

If we increase r [in a logistic map] even more, we will eventually force the system into a period-8 limit cycle, then a period-16 cycle, and so on. The amount that we have to increase r to get another period doubling gets smaller and smaller for each new bifurcation. This cascade of period doublings is reminiscent of the race between Achilles and the tortoise, in that an infinite number of bifurcations (or time steps in the race) can be confined to a local region of finite size. At a very special critical value, the dynamical system will fall into what is essentially an infinite-period limit cycle. This is chaos. — Gary William Flake