Visao Quotes & Sayings

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true. — Judy Biggert

To respect law, a man carries mercy with his endeavours. To respect ethics, he moves on wasteful relationships. — Harshit Walia

The cookbook gives a detailed description of ingredients and procedures but no proofs for its prescriptions or reasons for its recipes; the proof of the pudding is in the eating ... Mathematics cannot be tested in exactly the same manner as a pudding; if all sorts of reasoning are debarred, a course of calculus may easily become an incoherent inventory of indigestible information. — George Polya

Children internalize their parents' unhappiness. Fortunately, they absorb our contentment just as readily. — Lucille Ball

Idiot. I told you not to fight the horse thing. — Julie Kagawa

My music is part of the quest I have to find new ways of telling stories, and also, I want to inspire people. — Michael Franti

One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman. — Barack Obama

I have a lot of appreciation for what people do in front of the camera as well as behind the camera. I don't think I could like one without the other. Eventually, I think the road will lead me down to producing or directing, because it's more about problem solving. — Masi Oka

I don't like the theatre. I like plays in which the audience is addressed by the actors. I don't like seeing people talking to each other on stage as if there isn't an audience. — Jonathan Meades

His targets had little in common, other than that they had somehow aroused his enmity. — Harold Holzer

Books have that strange quality, that being of the frailest and tenderest matter, they outlast brass, iron and marble. — William Drummond

Although we deal with probabilities and expectations, the actual results can deviate substantially from such expectations, particularly on a short-term basis. — Warren Buffett

As a brand new graduate student starting in October 1956, my supervisor Michail Fischberg, a lecturer in the Department of Zoology at Oxford, suggested that I should try to make somatic cell nuclear transplantation work in the South African frog Xenopus laevis. — John Gurdon