Wellensiek Auction Quotes & Sayings

I'm happy with what I've achieved. — Sofia Vergara

What point?" Malcolm had asked. "That you can be as annoying to white people without talking to them as when you are talking to them? — Hanya Yanagihara

Once you find the right idea, then go ahead and embellish it. — Vincente Minnelli

In L.A. everyone is an actor. In Texas, everyone's a musician. — Minka Kelly

For me, neither the honey nor the bee — Sappho

Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view. — Cesar Romero

Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon

Add to this occasional journeys, ministers' meetings, etc., and you will rather wonder that I have any time, than that I have so little. I am not my own, nor would I choose for myself. Let God employ me where he thinks fit, and give me patience and discretion to fill up my station to his honour and glory. — William Carey

It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them. — Klemens Von Metternich

The solvable systems are the ones shown in textbooks. They behave. Confronted with a nonlinear system, scientists would have to substitute linear approximations or find some other uncertain backdoor approach. Textbooks showed students only the rare non-linear systems that would give way to such techniques. They did not display sensitive dependence on initial conditions. Nonlinear systems with real chaos were rarely taught and rarely learned. When people stumbled across such things-and people did-all their training argued for dismissing them as aberrations. Only a few were able to remember that the solvable, orderly, linear systems were the aberrations. Only a few, that is, understood how nonlinear nature is in its soul. Enrico Fermi once exclaimed, "It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly!" The mathematicians Stanislaw Ulam remarked that to call the study of chaos "nonlinear science" was like calling zoology "the study of nonelephant animals. — James Gleick

Faith is rather like a rhinoceros, in fact: it won't do much in the way of real work for you, and yet at close quarters it will make spectacular claims upon your attention. — Sam Harris

A man's word and his intestinal fortitude are two of the most honorable virtues known to mankind. — Jim Nantz

I'd been a film maniac since I was very young; by the time I was eight or nine years old, I was hooked on movies. — Charles Ferguson