Zd9817 Quotes & Sayings

I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. — Francesco Petrarca

The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? plucking? — Angelina Jolie

As a people, I am afraid, we tend too often to brush aside with impatience, sometimes with discourtesy, customs and points of view which are alien to us. — Eleanor Roosevelt

Light-months - and it was now possible to infer by parainterferometric methods that the star (ZD9817, or simply "our" star) had planets of some sort. — Robert A. Heinlein

Newspapers routinely refer to the missing men as 'disappeared persons', and their waiting wives are the 'half-widows'. — Basharat Peer

Give the best you have to the highest you know ... and do it now. — Ralph Washington Sockman

I'm not an impersonator. I've only got one voice and only do one guy and his first-person essays. — Tom Bodett

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue. — Christopher Hitchens

Nothing comes from doing nothing. — William Shakespeare

Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib' by the Princess Irulan — Frank Herbert