Calcifying Quotes

#1. NASA's myriad failures are in many ways the natural consequence of a catastrophic combination of bureaucracy, monopoly, and a calcifying aversion to the kind of risk necessary for innovation.

Burt Rutan

#2. I'll never retire as long as I live - that's like retiring from life! I'll never stop writing, teaching, lecturing. If you're in good health, living is exciting on its own.

Bel Kaufman

#3. For the soul that is blind considers falsehood to be falsehood no longer, evil not to be evil, because it puts darkness for light, and light for darkness, and falls into endless disorders.

San Juan De La Cruz

#4. What is the deeds of life; to serve, to sacrifice , to share!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. Fifty years ago, teachers said their top discipline problems were talking, chewing gum, making noise, and running in the halls. The current list, by contrast, sounds like a cross between a rap sheet and the seven deadly sins.

Anna Quindlen

#6. There's this great big world out there where women are valued for more than their vaginas," she

Kim Holden

#7. Horror is best written in the dark.

Dennis McDonald

#8. Do what you're told, and everything will be all right.

Norman Jewison

#9. Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

George Carlin