Marija Quotes

#1. A fish cannot be aware of the ocean, before jumping up out of water.

Rixa White

#2. The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a mere possibility; whilst the material without a plan is but useless matter.

Dmitri Mendeleev

#3. Archaeological materials are not mute. They speak their own language. And they need to be used for the great source they are to help unravel the spirituality of those of our ancestors who predate the Indo-Europeans by many thousands of years.

Marija Gimbutas

#4. I got exposed to art-house cinema and foreign films. I was from L.A., so it was a film culture that I didn't know about.

Lisa Cholodenko

#5. Through discipline comes freedom.

Aristotle.

#6. When oil and gas prices went up dramatically and filled up the state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to the people of Alaska.

Sarah Palin

#7. Parthenogenesis means never having your mother tell you to stop doing that or you'll go blind.

Seanan McGuire

#8. Anything can happen to anyone, but it usually doesn't. Except when it does.

Philip Roth

#9. I can no longer live by thinking.

William Shakespeare

#10. Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history.

Robert Hall

#11. If I am taking a job, I really want to do it 100% on a daily basis, and that's not what I can do right now.

Thomas Dooley

#12. There is something so innocent and sweet about romantic movies. The world doesn't always make sense, but in a good romantic comedy, I'm guaranteed a happily ever after.

Victoria Van Tiem

#13. Speakers are not supposed to waste time on platitudes, but the capacity of this generation for ignoring the obvious and concentrating on the negative and the obscure is immense.

Arthur Hays Sulzberger

#14. My point is not that religion itself is the motivation for wars, murders and terrorist attacks, but that religion is the principal label, and the most dangerous one, by which a "they" as opposed to a "we" can be identified at all.

Richard Dawkins