Xform Quotes & Sayings

VALENTINE: Are you talking about Lord Byron, the poet?
BERNARD: No, you fucking idiot, we're talking about Lord Byron, the chartered accountant. — Tom Stoppard

I do not know an instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty — G.H. Hardy

Never apologize for the good in your life. People who try to make you feel badly because you have been blessed are consumed by self-loathing. Wear your accomplishments proudly, be it your career, your relationship, your children, your success. True friends will bask in the glow of your shine, not pray for darkness to fall. — Carlos Wallace

A good way to avoid crimes of obedience is to assert one's personal authority and always take full responsibility for one's actions.23 — Philip G. Zimbardo

Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious. — Pierre Corneille

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche commenting on the music of Georges Bizet: His music has the tang of sunny climates, their bracing air, their clearness. It voices a sensibility hitherto unknown to us. — Georges Bizet

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations - that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute luck can never be refuted ... Luck is metaphysical speculation; scientific explanations invoke causes. — Michael J. Behe

I'm not a saint! Thanks God! — Ljupka Cvetanova

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. — Paul Hawken

I really want to understand the mind so I can be more comfortable with the way people are. Being comfortable with people is incredibly important. — Drew Barrymore

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the 'vertical dimension' of faith and the 'horizontal dimension' of love for one's neighbor and political change. — Jurgen Moltmann

When I choose projects, I don't stipulate between film or theatre or television. I receive scripts and I read scripts - and when I read a script that's good, I then get married to it and talk to my agent about what happens next. — Dominic Monaghan

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it ... for about ten years. — Harry Connick Jr.

States get to improve transportation infrastructure; that creates economic development, puts people back to work and, most important, enhances safety and improves local communities. — Corrine Brown

We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems — Ronald Reagan