Isles Of Scilly Quotes

#1. Since the 17th century, insurance agents have been the foremost experts on risk.

Charles Duhigg

#2. Hold on, don't skip all the good bits, I thought. Don't dream me a life without the romance. Let me do the coloring in myself.

Scot Gardner

#3. Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.

Jon Meacham

#4. Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control.

Terry Tempest Williams

#5. Amorphous forms [of ice], for example, are found naturally on comets, on asteroids, and the crystalline forms are found on Earth or at least could be made on Earth with enough pressure. Nothing else does this.

Ira Flatow

#6. Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

P. J. O'Rourke

#7. Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.

Bo Bennett

#8. Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.

Julian Jaynes

#9. It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Gertrude Stein

#10. What you do is look at yourself and find your own way to address the fact that the times have changed and that you have to pay attention. You can't be a designer and say, "Oh, this is timeless".

Paula Scher

#11. expect nothing, be pleasantly surprised.

Cindy Pon

#12. That darkest of syllables, death.

Mary McMullen

#13. He knew the saying was "the way to a man's heart was through his stomach," he was kind of counting on it working the other way around.

Samantha Chase

#14. This perception of division between the seer and the object that is seen, is situated in the mind. For those remaining in the heart, the seer becomes one with the sight.

Ramana Maharshi

#15. Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.

Sabine Baring-Gould

#16. I don't get the regular AIDS test anymore. I get the roundabout AIDS test. I ask my friend Brian, "Do you know anybody who has AIDS?". He says, "No". I say, "Cool, because you know me."

Mitch Hedberg