Zanchik Quotes & Sayings

My whole philosophy is a feeling about life. A feeling of awe. — Marty Rubin

The world of ideas which it [mathematics] discloses or illuminates, the contemplation of divine beauty and order which it induces, the harmonious connexion of its parts, the infinite hierarchy and absolute evidence of the truths with which it is concerned, these, and such like, are the surest grounds of the title of mathematics to human regard, and would remain unimpeached and unimpaired were the plan of the universe unrolled like a map at our feet, and the mind of man qualified to take in the whole scheme of creation at a glance. — James Joseph Sylvester

Don't make a big to-do about the turkey; brine it, put it in the oven, and don't think about it again. — Ruth Reichl

Anything cracked will shatter at a touch. — Ovid

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. — Joseph Conrad

All human suffering is a variation on this theme - trying to control the waves, trying to control our present-moment experience so it conforms to our ideas and concepts of how it should be. If you want to suffer, compare this moment with your image of how it should be! I — Jeff Foster

The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows. — Marge Piercy

You could see her face, because she was Somali. Saudi women had no faces. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Ten men of revolting appearance were approaching from the drive. They were low of brow, crafty of eye, and crooked of limb. They advanced huddled together with the loping tread of wolves, peering about them furtively as they came, as though in constant terror of ambush; they slavered at their mouths, which hung loosely over the receding chins, while each clutched under his ape-like arm a burden of curious and unaccountable shape. On seeing the Doctor they halted and edged back, those behind squinting and moulting over the companions' shoulders. — Evelyn Waugh

For though the wish for friendship comes quickly, friendship does not. — Aristotle.

Better to be the architect of something you can endorse than the placard waving protagonist standing in the rain. — Mr. Wrestling

I know; I don't care to die either. But when whining mendeth nothing, wherefore whine? — Robert Louis Stevenson