Head Up Buttercup Quotes

#1. The difference between mind and brain is that brain deals only with memorized, subjective, special-case experiences and objective experiments, while mind extracts and employs the
generalized principles and integrates and interrelates their effective employment.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#2. That suit has gone to your head."
"It's not the suit, buttercup."
"I don't do pet names."
"Do you do werewolves?"
"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore.

Ilona Andrews

#3. Razib Khan Hired And Fired By The New York Times, Both On The Same Day!

John Derbyshire

#4. Make men work together show them that beyond their differences and geographical boundaries there lies a common interest.

Jean Monnet

#5. To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. So you can't marry Harry, Mom! Not if you still love Daddy!" I sound like a ten-year-old, but I can't help it. Buttercup comes over to me and puts her head on my lap.
"Love gets used up, Chastity," Mom says gently, reaching up to smooth my hair. "If it's not returned, it gets used up.

Kristan Higgins

#7. My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.

J.G. Ballard

#8. The greatest modern philosopher was moved by nothing more than by duty. His life, in consequence, was unremarkable.

Roger Scruton

#9. I love layering things. Fall is my favorite time of the year to get dressed.

Blake Lively

#10. Imagine if you succeeded in making the world perfect for your children what a shock the rest of life would be for them.

Joyce Maynard

#11. I came from a traditional family, and it was an exciting but challenging transition to move to America and live on my own. The world around me was suddenly so different.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#12. In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.

Agnes Smedley

#13. Were I not a king, I would be a university man.

King James I

#14. No, mes amis, impressionism is not charlatanry, nor a formula, nor a school. I should say rather it is the bold resolve to throw all those things overboard.

Joaquin Sorolla

#15. A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country.

Voltaire

#16. Philosophy is to science as masturbation is to sex.

Karl Marx

#17. I have two college degrees, but the only way I could make a living was by showing kids how to put a ball in a hole.

Red Auerbach