Minakshi Goyal Quotes

#1. A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. (Crank theories) always violated the first rule of a scientific model: they were uncheckable.

Gregory Benford

#3. But this is a thing more ardently to be wished than seriously to be expected.

Alexander Hamilton

#4. I left college two months ago because it rewards conformity rather than independence, competition rather than collaboration, regurgitation rather than learning and theory rather than application. Our creativity, innovation and curiosity are schooled out of us.

Dale J. Stephens

#5. In our daily life a certain way of thinking makes us happy, and a certain way of thinking makes us unhappy. In other words, there are certain states of mind which bring us problems, and they can be removed ...

Dalai Lama

#6. They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

Henry Vaughan

#7. The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another - it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

John Scalzi

#8. There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil's clever promises and God's sure Word.

Billy Graham

#9. The perfect world, by Adam trod,
Was the first temple
built by God
His fiat laid the corner stone,
And heaved its pillars, one by one.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#10. You're in a mess, and in excess.

Billy Strayhorn

#11. My romantically favorite era is 78, 79 listening to Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 4, the live tapes, echo chamber and break beats.

Kool Moe Dee

#12. nearly a hundred mongrel celebrants in the throng, the police relied on their firearms and plunged determinedly into the nauseous rout.

H.P. Lovecraft

#13. Its almost as if he was raised by wolves, but wolves who knew the value of a decent education.

David Nicholls

#14. I've left Bethlehem, and I feel free. I've left the girl I was supposed to be, and some day I'll be born.

Paula Cole

#15. You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

Daley Thompson