Yaptrac Quotes & Sayings

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it. — Jean Rostand

When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac. — Bram Cohen

You get to the stage when your almost looking down on yourself. When you get into that state, it's the best state ever. — Stirling Moss

Knowledge should be a public good, and I want my ideas to have as much exposure as possible. — Sheena Iyengar

(a man in love speaking)
"I don't notice much of anything anymore but Marie." He laid his hand on his chest. "This force," he said, "it just does with you what it wants to do with you, makes you feel what it wants to make you feel."
"Tango — Kurt Vonnegut

A sentence in Auden's Airman's Journal has always seemed very profound to me
I
haven't the book here so I can't quote it exactly, but something about time and space and
how 'geography is a thousand times more important to modern man than history'
I
always like to feel where I am geographically all the time, on the map,
but maybe that
is something else again. — Elizabeth Bishop

If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that. — M.J. Rose

Lepidopterists give the noun a gerund's push toward the verb, and say that butterflies are nectaring ... — Sue Hubbell

It is amazing how your life changes when you embrace the reality that you're better than the life you've settled for. — Steve Maraboli

The only advice [for new writers and poets] I can offer is to be yourself: not the self someone else wants you to be, but the self you are. Enjoy yourself and your life. But most of all travel and eat. That's how we learn. — Nikki Giovanni

To tell you the truth, I'm not unhappy about it. I'm not even sure that I like the idea of adapting novels into films. It's very difficult to do, and it usually doesn't work. There are exceptions, but generally speaking, one feels disappointed with the result. — Paul Auster

When Barrons looks at me like that, it rattles me. Lust, in those ancient, obsidian eyes, offers no trace of humanity. Doesn't even bother trying. Savage Mac wants to invite it to come out and play. I think she's nuts. Nuts, I tell you. — Karen Marie Moning

Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young. — E. O. Wilson

To this point, musical repetition has been viewed as a particular kind of object. But it can also be viewed as a particular kind of behavior. — Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis