Oudy Nights Quotes

#1. We admire elephants in part because they demonstrate what we consider the finest human traits: empathy, self-awareness, and social intelligence. But the way we treat them puts on display the very worst of human behavior.

Graydon Carter

#2. Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before.

William Shakespeare

#3. Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.

Charles Caleb Colton

#4. When a hypothesis enters a scientist's mind, he checks it by calculation and experiment, that is, by the mimicry and the pantomime of truth. It's plausibility infects others, and the hypothesis is accepted as the true explanation for the given phenomenon, until someone finds its faults.

Vladimir Nabokov

#5. My mom is such a big supporter of mine. She still is, and always was. So I got the sort of encouragement from that side of the family.

Billy Bob Thornton

#6. Talk with M. Hermite. He never evokes a concrete image, yet you soon perceive that the more abstract entities are to him like living creatures.

Henri Poincare

#7. People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It's more about getting up when you're knocked down by life.

Ashwin Sanghi

#8. From a very young age my mother persuaded me that I could write for fun, but I had to have a proper job - very good advice.

Joanne Harris

#9. I've never felt that acting was my vocation - never had that tortured thing. I love acting, but it doesn't feed my soul.

James Nesbitt

#10. This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word.

T. S. Eliot

#11. If a worldview is true, it should answer all of life's fundamental and central questions coherently.

Abdu H Murray