Bricmont's Quotes

#1. The meaningless wordplays of modish francophone savants, splendidly exposed in Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont's Intellectual Impostures (1998), seem to have no other function than to impress the gullible.

Richard Dawkins

#2. Be the kind of person that sees an obstacle as a Mountain, and throws on their hiking gear

Casar Jacobson

#3. Teens think listening to music helps them concentrate. It doesn't. It relieves them of the boredom that concentration on homework induces.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#4. As they do every year, al-Qaida has threatened to disrupt and ruin Christmas. You know, we already have a group that disrupts and ruins Christmas every year. They're called relatives.

Jay Leno

#5. When I saw the kouros for the first time," he said, "I felt as though there was a glass between me and the work.

Malcolm Gladwell

#6. The root of the matter is a very simple and old fashioned thing ... love or compassion. If you feel this, you have a motive for existence, a guide for action, a reason for courage, an imperative necessity for intellectual honesty.

Bertrand Russell

#7. I did my first Broadway play, 'The Vertical Hour,' in 2006, with Julianne Moore, who's always been one of my favorite actresses. My scene was with her, so it was nerve-racking.

Rutina Wesley

#8. Measure your life in love.

Jonathan Larson

#9. You are so lucky to have each other. I've never actually seen a man love a woman as much as he loves you, Sarah. I love your father and he loves me. We have survived a lot of things, but I know in my heart of hearts our love is not as intense as yours.

Tara Brown

#10. Maybe I'll buy a camera and videotape myself 'a la Paranormal Activity style. Then I'll be able to watch myself sleepwalking and getting up to make pancakes and then standing over Midnight dangling a peice of bacon.

Travis Thrasher

#11. As with most things governmental, failure does not mean having to try something else. It means spending more money.

Cal Thomas

#12. It's made me more expectant of the imminent return of Jesus, and also more sensitive to the people around me. Knowing Jesus will return soon makes me want all the more to tell people about him and all that he offers.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#13. I don't write on demand - I wait for inspiration to come.

Jill Scott

#14. He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

Thomas Aquinas

#15. I thought that the main problem in the gay community is the lack of funding, I was wrong. The essential quality that this movement needs is courage and an ideal; without an ideal, nothing is possible.

Nikolay Alexeyev

#16. Now that Serbia is moving towards integration into Europe, the opportunities to get closer cooperation may very well exist.

Ben Cardin