Armonie Pierson Quotes

#1. Once dressed he came back downstairs, snapping: "call me a taxi."
So I did. I said, "Dick, you're a taxi.

Gillibran Brown

#2. Geoengineering - the deliberate, large-scale manipulation of the earth's climate to offset global warming - is a nightmare fix for climate change.

Jeff Goodell

#3. You should know I disagree with a lot of traditional advice. For instance, they say the best revenge is living well. I say it's acid in the face - who will love them now?

Mindy Kaling

#4. When they made decisions, people did not seek to maximize utility. They sought to minimize regret.

Michael Lewis

#5. Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Claude Bernard

#6. The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

David Ginola

#7. One cannot learn so well as by experiencing it oneself.

Albert Einstein

#8. I read that book How to Hug a Porcupine [by Julie Ross] - it's my parenting bible. They say you have to trust your children and give them freedom. I say, OK, but this is New York City!

Kelly Ripa

#9. The road is narrow. He who wishes to travel it more easily must cast off all things and use the cross as his cane. In other words, he must be truly resolved to suffer willingly for the love of God in all things.

John Of The Cross

#10. I happen to be a Christian, but I know that there is one God. People worshipping goodness and love and kindness and truth are worshipping the same God.

Anne Lamott

#11. I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.

Robert Winston

#12. So, like I asked, what's with the nightie?"
"It smells like what I always think mothers smell like," I tell him honestly, knowing I don't have to explain.
He nods. "My mum has one just the same and you have no idea how disturbing it is that it's turning me on.

Melina Marchetta

#13. There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Calvin Trillin

#14. You have to run 75 to 100 miles a week if you expect to break the four-minute mile.

Kenneth H. Cooper