Firnas Quotes

#1. Ibn Firnas was a polymath: a physician, a rather bad poet, the first to make glass from stones (quartz), a student of music, and inventor of some sort of metronome.

Lynn Townsend White Jr.

#2. What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing?

Abbas Ibn Firnas

#3. People know elections, like television commercials, are not real.

William Greider

#4. Gwen knew that Martin had once been captured by federal agents. She didn't know that when he referred to being interrogated by the best, he was talking about his mother.

Scott Meyer

#5. All right, she whispered, and the whisper

Terry Pratchett

#6. At some point you must decide if you want to succeed or just be someone who was never to blame for anything going wrong.

Robert Breault

#7. I liked the give-and-take of a policy discussion in the community, with citizens. I didn't know that even took place, frankly, but I never dreamed it would be an enjoyable thing to do.

Tom Price

#8. Mythology works ... because Indians have been bred on myths.

Ashwin Sanghi

#9. Micro managing anything is not a great role for government.

William Weld

#10. I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.

Dani Shapiro

#11. I squeeze my eyes shut and whisper in her damp hair. 'You're all I see, Sloan. Beyond the job, beyond right and wrong. You're all I see.

Colleen Hoover