Islip Quotes

#1. We decide to start with the best-known sight of all, the one that, more than any other, exemplifies what the Big Apple is all about: the Islip Garbage Barge.

Dave Barry

#2. Electric power is everywhere present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world's machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas, or any other of the common fuels.

Nikola Tesla

#3. For better or worse we're in an age of disbelief," Rico said, "An age of science and a need for proof.

Bryan Islip

#4. Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.

Augusten Burroughs

#5. Someone said it better than that; be true unto yourself. Self, right? No-one else. If everyone was true unto his or her self there might even be a chance of something better for us all.

Bryan Islip

#6. I believe L. Ron Hubbard resolved the human mind, and in resolving it he has also resolved human pain - that's what I really think has happened here.

John Travolta

#7. I think I am probably a lot like my father.

Marlene Dumas

#8. Moreover, although the people are guilty, Peter understands that it was precisely through the evil execution of Jesus that "God fulfilled what he had foretold through all the prophets, saying that his Christ would suffer" (3:18). That is the supreme irony of all history.

D. A. Carson

#9. Before going back to college, i knew i didn't want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together.

Assata Shakur

#10. Everything sings, the whole universe and all the other universes. It's in our genes, see, not just in our ears.

Bryan Islip

#11. I've got an 'eckilectic' reading list.

George W. Bush

#12. And there was born that so mysterious thing that we call 'love' between man and woman; the thing that transcends, uplifts, indeed is the sole enoblement of our act of lust.

Bryan Islip

#13. The well dressed man is he whose clothes you never notice

W. Somerset Maugham

#14. I was introduced to spinning. It was so intense! It's the hardest workout you've ever done, and afterwards you feel amazing.

Scott Michael Foster

#15. Some archeologists believe that Stonehenge - the mysterious arrangement of enormous elongated stones in England - is actually a crude effort by the Druids to build a computing device.

Dave Barry

#16. The system is only as good as the person programming it. If you don't have the follow-through, your system is useless. And by the way, it's that way in parenting; it's that way in marriages.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#17. This is how early age people heard music, not through their ears above the cacophony of modern life but directly from the universe into their souls.

Bryan Islip

#18. The glory of the old Irish nation, which in our hour will grow young and strong again. Should we fail, the country will not be worth more than it is now. The sword of famine is less sparing than the bayonet of the soldier.

Thomas Francis Meagher

#19. science feeds our perpetual curiousity and claims that nothing exists until 'proven'. Science cannot prove the existence or non-existence of the human soul any more than a thermometer can prove the colour red or King Henry the eight could discourse on electronics.

Bryan Islip

#20. So when it comes to solving problems, channeling your inner child can really pay off. It all starts with thinking small.

Steven D. Levitt

#21. Something about an inner value, about love; the love that shone from him as if from some kind of a beacon.

Bryan Islip