Worm Pit Fishing Quotes & Sayings

I am only an agent of creativity and I write in order to start an argument and not to conclude it. — John Nkemngong Nkengasong

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. — Stephen D. Krashen

For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have. — William Shakespeare

A thoughtful observer of the scientific betting shop, the biologist Sir Peter Medawar, has said: 'I cannot give any scientist of any age better advice than this: the intensity of the conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or not.' But as Medawar goes on to note, conviction is an incentive to work. Science is one of the most passionate of human activities: how else would researchers be sustained through the long weeks or years of drudgery, why otherwise should Hoyle and Wickramasinghe spend so much time in correspondence with school matrons? If appearances contradict this, it is because all gamblers pride themselves on keeping their outward cool. — Nigel Calder

Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school assignment, be it playing a musical instrument or writing papers, whatever, he would do at any or all hours of the day". — James Wallace

A rich man doesn't need to tell you he's rich. — Neil Strauss

I'm a woman for all seasons. I mix 'n' match, do designer and high street - keep all my good pieces. I design all my evening and cocktail dresses most of the time as I dislike what is out there. — Joan Collins

Theirs was the fullness of heaven and earth; the more that they gave to others, the more they had. — Chaung Tzu

I had forgotten, I suppose, that there were bright memories in amongst the dark. — Kate Morton

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world. — George Osborne

I'm a coward, I close my eyes. I don't understand why God made sight the only sense that can be blocked off. — Christopher Pike

There's a certain kind of cultural energy pursued by the gatekeepers of elite discourse, who want to argue that Americans fundamentally agree with each other, and that's the health of the nation. — Rick Perlstein

multitude of books is a great evil — Clay Shirky

A turnip would have grasped it quicker. — George R R Martin