Wumens Quotes & Sayings

This is not what I thought physics was about when I started out: I learned that the idea is to explain nature in terms of clearly understood mathematical laws; but perhaps comparisons are the best we can hope for. — Hans Christian Von Baeyer

It's a treat to see the sun rise over the desert. What am I saying? It's a treat to fire off a rocket car over the desert! — Adam Savage

That first kill taught him how easy it was. It taught him violence wasn't the final refuge of the stupid, but rather the final refuge of a man unwilling to lose. — Michael R. Fletcher

Nation is one. We will not work for Hindus or Muslims, we will work for the people of India. — Narendra Modi

It is the duty of the followers of Islam to spread through the civilised world, a knowledge of what Islam means - its spirit and message. — Annie Besant

Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there. — David Nicholls

As I've grown older I've been more influenced by more meandering styles of guitar playing, whether it's Celtic or Ethiopian folk music or some kind of noisier jazz like Sonny Sharrock. In terms of songwriting, I don't know that I could even pin it down. — Ted Leo

If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its room and entertain itself, because mummy and daddy are busy, the apostrophe is the abused victim. — John Humphrys

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude. — Sam Hunt

I can't decide which color I am. I mean, my father was a black, a real black - oh, he had some white blood, but he was a black - and my mother was a white, and I'm neither one. See, my father really hated my mother because she was white. But he also loved her. But I think she loved his being black much more than she loved him. Well, where does that leave me? I never have figured out." "Brown," he said gently, standing behind her chair. "Shit color." "The color of the earth. — Ursula K. Le Guin

His large hand closes across around my mouth to stop me from screaming, and he holds me easily in place. The logical part of my brain is expecting this and tries to quell the spike of adrenaline which rushes through my body, but the instinct to fight is stronger than I'd anticipated. Impulsively I struggle to break out of the bonds of his arms, and he tightens his grip on me instantly. — Felicity Brandon