Orben Etagere Quotes

#1. A simple, well-proven surgery can restore sight to millions, and something even simpler, a pair of glasses, can make millions more see.

Thulasiraj Ravilla

#2. called Jeff back in Chicago. "You grew up way out in the country with a bunch of brothers. Did you ever pee in cups and, like, leave them around?" Jeff was incredulous. "What? No! That's disgusting." One thousand points for Jeff.

Tina Fey

#3. What we learn from the story of Adam and Eve is simple. What we can have is never what we want. And when we can have what we wanted we want something else. It's human nature in a single luminous story. Our sin. Our fall. Our problem.

R. Joseph Hoffmann

#4. I love rain. It's lucky, I always think.

Katharine Hepburn

#5. There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

Epes Sargent

#6. You will either fear God or other people. There are no other alternatives.

Edward T. Welch

#7. In reply, I can only plead that a discovery which seems to contradict the general tenor of previous investigations is naturally received with much hesitation.

Charles Lyell

#8. We don't really want to think that the artist is only very skilled, that he has merely devoted his life to perfecting a certain set of intelligible skills.

John Updike

#9. There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

Erving Goffman