Encysted Quotes

#1. Thoughts are dangerous, he told himself, and thoughts against all science, all sanity, all civilized intelligence, are the most dangerous of all. He felt their presence here and there in his brain, like pockets of poison, harmless as long as you left them encysted and did not prick them.

Fritz Leiber

#2. The art of research [is] the art of making difficult problems soluble by devising means of getting at them.

Peter Medawar

#3. If I had feelings, I probably wouldn't have even survived.

Richard M. Nixon

#4. Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do comprehend.

Mira Bartok

#5. I don't know," she said. "We used to squabble a lot when we were going together and then engaged and everything, but I thought everything would be so different as soon as you were married. And now I feel so sort of strange and everything. I feel so sort of alone.

Dorothy Parker

#6. Some to conceit alone their taste confine,
And glittering thoughts struck out at ev'ry line;
Pleas'd with a work where nothing's just or fit;
One glaring chaos and wild heap of wit.

Alexander Pope

#7. In Kenya, where there isn't the luxury of feeding grains to animals, livestock yield more calories than they consume because they are fattened on grass and agricultural by-products inedible to humans.

Tristram Stuart

#8. Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure.

Epicurus