Villagran Quotes & Sayings

People assume that I came back to Washington because of the 'Post', but the truth is less romantic. I came back for a job. — Katharine Weymouth

Hei! Aa-shanta 'nygh! You are off! Send back earth's gods to their haunts on unknown Kadath, and pray to all space that you may never meet me in my thousand other forms. Farewell, Randolph Carter, and beware; for I am Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos. — H.P. Lovecraft

Modeling a realistic human face was beyond his ability. This is because when a light beam hits the human face, it scatters in all directions, depending on its texture. Each particle of light has to be tracked by computer. Hence, each point of skin on a person's face has to be described by a complex mathematical function, which is a real headache for a — Anonymous

I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30. — Fred Saberhagen

When you look out the other way toward the stars you realize it's an awful long way to the next watering hole. — Loren Acton

I don't control life, but I can control how i react to it — Macklemore

Pour away despair and rinse the cup. Eat happiness like bread. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Thus at the beginning of 1906 it seemed to be established that the emitters of the spectral series of chemical elements are their positive atomic ions. — Johannes Stark

Twin primes: pairs of prime numbers that are close to each other, almost neighbors, but between them there is always an even number that prevents them from truly touching. If you have the patience to go on counting, you discover that these pairs gradually become rarer. You encounter increasingly isolated primes, lost in that silent, measured space made only of ciphers, and you develop a distressing presentiment that the pairs encountered up until that point were accidental, that solitude is the true destiny. Then, just when you're about to surrender, when you no longer have the desire to go on counting, you come across another pair of twins, clutching each other tightly. — Paolo Giordano

We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience. — Virginia Euwer Wolff

a man loves a girl ever so much, he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking'. — Mallanaga Vatsyayana

Where have we come as a country, when loving the Constitution, being a patriot, loving Jesus is extremist? Let me tell you what I think is extreme, is a president who was raised by communists, taught by communists, who was supported by communists, and whose self-appointed, self-admitted heroes are communists. And that, I think, is un-American. — Matt Shea

Adversity refined a man like gold. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I'm often wrong, but never in doubt. — Ivy Baker Priest

Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured. — William Shakespeare