Weirdest Celebrity Quotes & Sayings

I can recognize the calls of practically every bird in North America. There are some in Africa I don't know, though. — Roger Tory Peterson

And dances at night. Daisy greeted the people she knew, which was — Ken Follett

Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared. — Lorrie Moore

Aristotle's opinion ... that comets were nothing else than sublunary vapors or airy meteors ... prevailed so far amongst the Greeks, that this sublimest part of astronomy lay altogether neglected; since none could think it worthwhile to observe, and to give an account of the wandering and uncertain paths of vapours floating in the Ether. — Edmond Halley

I think that poetry is perfect for women raising children, with just bits of time and such need to connect to other women out of the isolation of motherhood. — Francesca Lia Block

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent? — William Morris

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once. — Charles Olson

At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world. — Charles Darwin

There is here, what is not in the old country. In spite of hard, unfamiliar things, there is here - hope. In the old country, a man can be no more than his father, providing he works hard. If his father was a carpenter, he may be a carpenter. He many not be a teacher or a priest. He may rise - but only to his father's state. In the old country, a man is given to the past. Here he belongs to the future. In this land, he may be what he will, if he has the good heart and the way of working honestly at the right things. — Betty Smith