Newfie Christmas Sayings

#1. Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

David Hume

#2. We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it.

Stephen Hawking

#3. If a couple of gay guys want to throw the gayest, most fabulous wedding of all time, the only way it should offend you is if you weren't invited.

Orlando Winters

#4. There are many good things about getting older, but no one knows what they are.

Daniel Gilbert

#5. I'd love to work with Missy Elliott. I'd love to work with Bonnie Raitt. I'd love, love, love to work with Barbra Streisand. I'm reaching, because why not? You don't know what's going to happen in this life.

Jill Scott

#6. I think the promise of fame and what it holds to you as a child and dreaming of it is not what it is. What it is, I'm not complaining about, but it's just different than the reality you dreamed.

Rosie O'Donnell

#7. That great chain of causes, which, linking one to another, even to the throne of God Himself, can never be unraveled by any industry of ours.

Edmund Burke

#8. That word 'funny' always makes me feel uncomfortable. Because if I were trying to be funny, I would be something like Bill Wegman - he really tries to be funny. I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter, and I'm sort of reporting.

John Baldessari

#9. Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Bob Gibson

#10. If I had in me something that inspires people towards the good and raises them one step on the ladder of mental and spiritual progress, I want to show it by example, indication, and deduction, not by preaching, threatening, and conspiring.

Ameen Rihani

#11. To eradicate blindness, let us expand our vision. Let us dream and take actions to make blindness a history from the past.

Debasish Mridha

#12. I always eat a meal at home before I leave for the airport, so I only eat the soup and salad on the plane.

Nobu Matsuhisa