Alejandro Vargas Quotes

#1. Emotion is messy, contradictory ... and true.

Nigella Lawson

#2. The life of a poet lies not merely in the finite language-dance of expression but in the nearly infinite combinations of perception and memory combined with the sensitivity to what is perceived and remembered.

Dan Simmons

#3. Nor problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

John F. Kennedy

#4. Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

Bill Bailey

#5. Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.

Virginia Graham

#6. If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#7. A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Ben Parr

#9. You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Clive Davis

#10. I love cities, I spend most of my life talking about cities. And the design of cities does have an effect on your life. You're lucky if you can see trees out of your window and you have a square nearby, or a bar, a cornershop, a surgery. Then you're living well.

Richard Rogers

#11. Look, it's to the point where kids are getting Botox. It's insane. We're not allowed to age.

Rosanna Arquette

#12. One could not have isolated this retrovirus without knowledge of other retroviruses, that's obvious. But I believe we have answered the criteria of isolation.

Luc Montagnier

#13. Here in America we're doing the most wonderful crafts.

Beatrice Wood