Earsplitting Rats Quotes

#1. The appeal all too often is to the gallery, hungry for sensation.

Otto Hermann Kahn

#2. Who will venture to place the authority of Copernicus above that of the Holy Spirit?
[Lutheran theologian Abraham Calovius illustrating his objection to heliocentrism due to the Bible's support of geocentrism]

Abraham Calovius

#3. The Flutie Bowl is a great event that brings together people who really care about the autism community. We always have a great time bowling and playing music.

Doug Flutie

#4. Everything had changed.Everything was different. And he was desperate to tell her. Cam knew his life
had turned on its axis yet again. And somehow he'd ended up exactly where he needed to be.
The only thing missing was Anna.

Nora Roberts

#5. Because the soul is like a flower that folds its petals when dark comes, and breathes not its fragrance into the phantoms of the night.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

John Milton

#7. My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Cary Grant

#8. It's going to be a grim day when the world is run by a generation that doesn't know anything but what it's seen on TV.

Bill Watterson

#9. I don't care who you were.
I don't care who you are and I am more concerned with who you're working to become.

Baylor Barbee

#10. As much as I like my sister-in-law, I didn't want her two cents. This was a conversation for siblings, with in-laws as invested observers.

Elisabeth Egan

#11. It's true that if your religion failed to deliver a miracle, that a human sacrifice would certainly follow."
"Ah ... quite. You are a man of acute insight."
"That's not insight. That's a personal guarantee.

Lois McMaster Bujold

#12. One of the saddest sentences I know is "I wish I had asked my mother about that." Or my father. Or my grandmother. Or my grandfather. As every parent knows, our children are not as fascinated by our fascinating lives as we are.

William Zinsser

#13. Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Stephen Hawking

#14. My emotional and intellectual response to Hiroshima was that the question of the social responsibility of a journalist was posed with greater urgency than ever.

Wilfred Burchett

#15. I actually think it's easier to be positive than negative, to be honest - it takes way more energy to stay mad at someone, for instance, than it does to say "i forgive you" and move on.

Dave Smalley