Zekas Dad Quotes & Sayings

Calvin: I'm a genius. I can't believe how smart I am.
... I've got more brains than I know what to do with.
Hobbes: So I've noticed. — Bill Watterson

Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science ... — Donald Knuth

Every word you have ever uttered, is engraved upon my heart. — Elizabeth Hoyt

The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge. — Leila Aboulela

In a false quarrel there is no true valour. — William Shakespeare

How well she does everything! She reads not as if reading were the highest human activity, but as if it were the simplest possible thing, a thing even animals could do. As if she were carrying water from a well, or peeling potatoes.
These reflections calmed him. A rare peace descended upon his soul. His mind stopped darting from subject to subject. He could not help smiling ... — Boris Pasternak

Coleridge was a drug addict. Poe was an alcoholic. Marlowe was killed by a man whom he was treacherously trying to stab. Pope took money to keep a woman's name out of a satire, then wrote a piece so that she could still be recognized, anyhow. Chatterton killed himself. Byron was accused of incest. Do you still want to a writer -and if so, why? — Bennett Cerf

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year. — Mara Liasson

So many ways to screw the pooch, and just one staggeringly complex, scrupulously modeled, endlessly rehearsed, indefatigably tested way to succeed. — Margot Lee Shetterly

A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. — Hesiod

We have buried the putrid corpse of liberty — Benito Mussolini

Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships. — Erik Paulsen

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. — Roger Ascham