Chemical Equation Quotes

#1. As far as I can tell, there are two kinds of poets: those who want to tell stories and sing songs, and those who want to work out the chemical equation for language and pass on their experiments as poetry.

Simon Armitage

#2. The strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires ...

John Geddes

#3. Why don't we want our children to learn to do mathematics? Is it that we don't trust them, that we think it's too hard? We seem to feel that they are capable of making arguments and coming to their own conclusions about Napoleon. Why not about triangles?

Paul Lockhart

#4. Destiny is not a matter of fate, it is a matter of choice, and we have some choices to be made here.

Mario Gonzalez

#5. I like fashion. I like being in shape. I like to look nice and I like to make money, but I don't think that's the most, No. 1, important thing.

Eleanor Mondale

#6. ...it was absurd to have killed a man for nothing...

Emile Zola

#7. Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.
(From Slave)

John F. MacArthur Jr.

#8. I see my poems as interlinked. No poem gives an answer. It may offer other questions, it may instigate other questions that then become poems.

Pattiann Rogers

#9. Certainly, they'd had to endure the war, but they had each other close by. They had never known the confusion of being a third-worlder, they had always a home!

Marjane Satrapi

#10. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

William Shakespeare

#11. Do not let your heart be troubled, trust in God.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#12. My eating habits were so bad for many years that I didn't actually know the intricacies of making a salad.

Maureen Dowd

#13. We picked some pea pods, opened them and ate the peas inside. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.

Neil Gaiman

#14. The truth is that the world doesn't have much use or respect for "do nothing" people. Can you really blame them?

Bryant McGill

#15. There were cats lying in the way but they did not move. Cats rarely moved for people in Egypt. They had to step round them. The cats merely lay there and watched them.

Michael Pearce

#16. Nothing which is harmonized by the bond of the Muse can be changed from its own to another language without destroying its sweetness

Dante Alighieri