Perrupit Quotes

#1. Coelorum perrupit claustra.
He broke through the barriers of the skies.
[Herschel's epitaph]

William Herschel

#2. Experts who acknowledge the full extent of their ignorance may expect to be replaced by more confident competitors, who are better able to gain the trust of clients. An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality - but it is not what people and organizations want.

Daniel Kahneman

#3. The world is a hard place and can be hardest on the hopeful,

Matthew Quick

#4. We have a cultural notion that if children were not engineered, if we did not manipulate them, they would grow up as beasts in the field. This is the wildest fallacy in the world.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

#5. Make sure you have an edge. Know what your edge is. And have rigid risk control rules.

Monroe Trout

#6. But doing 'Parenthood,' I've never ever been happier in 35 years. I drive to work and I drive home. I'm like a factory worker and that is in my DNA. I love having a steady job with the same people. It's made me so much calmer and more content. Now I just hope the series goes on for 15 years.

Dax Shepard

#7. Drunk on sports all over again, just like a seven-year old in New Jersey whose mom has just bought him two packs of baseball cards for ten cents.

Tim Cowlishaw

#8. Jutta, he thinks, I finally listened.

Anthony Doerr

#9. We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes.

Ronald Reagan

#10. I've been off drugs and booze since I almost killed myself on speed two weeks ago. But my gratitude for being alive can't last for ever.

Johnny Dark

#11. We are excited about the music, past and present and future, and are really looking forward to playing.

Graham Nash