Zelda Gilroy Quotes & Sayings

Metaphor is one of a group of problem-solving medicines known as figures of speech which are normally used to treat literal thinking and other diseases. — Grant Morrison

Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other. — Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game — Nigel Short

Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve. — Bobby Flay

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. — Peter De Vries

I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,
Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..
Never to the defect of demanding of the World
That it be anything that's not the World. — Alberto Caeiro

A fast tongue is a sign of a slow brain — Abu Fennek

I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward. — MC Paul Barman

Reason's last step is to acknowledge that there are infinitely many things
beyond it. — Blaise Pascal

The cover or jacket protects the book, identifies the author and title, and carries the blurb. The ISBN and bar code enable ordering. — Giles Clark

If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant — Peter Legge

I'm from the South, so I'm very old-fashioned and I'm not very computer savvy at all, but I'm getting it. I understand that, if you've got information and you want it out there, that is how you go about doing it. I get it. — Angie Harmon

This whole thing that's happened to me, you see, this whole success thing..it hasn't yet really compromised the position that I took a long time ago in Texas, that was to be true to myself, to be the person that I ... that was on inside of me and not play games ... — Janis Joplin