Birks Quotes

#1. Now Simmer blinks on flowery braes,
And o'er the chrystal streamlets plays;
Come let us spend the lightsome days
In the birks of Aberfeldy.

Robert Burns

#2. I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

John F. Kennedy

#3. I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors.

Morgan Freeman

#4. Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

Subramanya Bharathi

#5. Loyalty cannot be too liberally insisted upon. Altruism in nature remains an exception. It poses a puzzle, being in prima facie conflict with the survival of the fittest and most selfish.

Peter Birks

#6. We have very strong intuitions about all kinds of things - our own ability, how the economy works, how we should pay school teachers. But unless we start testing those intuitions, we're not going to do better.

Dan Ariely

#7. There was courage in no disguising the animal you happened to be.

J.K. Rowling

#8. You can't make anything if you're lost to yourself. You'll want to again, it's who you are. Wren, grieving is hard. Complex. Takes its own time.

Amy McNamara

#9. With hat in hand, one gets on in the world.

Berthold Auerbach

#10. Let me always be happy, so I can do my best, at home, at school, at work, at rest.

Simon Birks

#11. Whether it's a computer or a pen drawing, design is about drawing shapes and making physical things.

Jake Barton

#12. We have to actually choose a name," Kane murmured above her head. "We can't keep calling him 'baby.' When he's fifteen he might resent it.

Christine Feehan

#13. Power is everywhere when you can see it and find it. It is nowhere when you can't.

Frederick Lenz

#14. Every man must have the right fearlessly to think independently and express his opinion about what he knows, what he has personally thought about and experienced, and not merely to express with slightly different variations the opinion which has been inculcated in him.

Mstislav Rostropovich