Wayne Simmonds Quotes & Sayings

The world the gods made is too big for us, so we make ourselves a smaller one. — Sarah Micklem

The truth seems to be that they [teachers of grammar] were victims of a mighty hoax, one of those true belly-rumbling impostures which a workaday world can but seldom afford. — Charlton Laird

I suppose you can't hold on to old things just for the sake of holding on. — Jenny Han

When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, 'Wuthering Heights' and 'Jane Eyre.' In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I've found it's often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

We need science education to produce scientists, but we need it equally to create literacy in the public. Man has a fundamental urge to comprehend the world about him, and science gives today the only world picture which we can consider as valid. It gives an understanding of the inside of the atom and of the whole universe, or the peculiar properties of the chemical substances and of the manner in which genes duplicate in biology. An educated layman can, of course, not contribute to science, but can enjoy and participate in many scientific discoveries which as constantly made. Such participation was quite common in the 19th century, but has unhappily declined. Literacy in science will enrich a person's life. — Hans Bethe

My mama was a rocker way back in fifty-three, buys them old records that they sell on TV. — Tom Petty

The leading cause of death is birth. — Lewis H. Lapham

I don't play classical guitar. But I do in my mind. I've got it on a stand. — Michael Gambon

My father was crying. It was the first time I saw him cry. I had never thought it possible. — Elie Wiesel

What our world most requires now is the kind of education that foster love for humankind, that develops character-that provides an intellectual basis for realization of peace and empowers learners to contribute to and improve society. — Daisaku Ikeda

There is no need to fear the strong. All one needs is to know the method of overcoming them. There is a special jujitsu for every strong man. — Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I feel I should never do passive characters. They don't work for me. — Emraan Hashmi