Quimbayo Quotes

#1. Oh, but I am quite resigned to taking second place in the shadow of my husband. I am humbly aware that the wife of a great man has to be contented with reflected glory - don't you think so Miss Taggart?"
"No," said Dagny, "I don't.

Ayn Rand

#2. He took a duck in the face at 250 knots.

William Gibson

#3. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious. We should not retreat from this accomplishment.

Steven Weinberg

#4. I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony.

Andrew Tan

#5. As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#6. How many of us have a love so true it spans eternity? A purity of need so clear it can remain strong in the face of all that the world throws at us? This
is Karen Ann McNeil, the woman who fell to Earth, the woman for whom the people in her life never gave up waiting.

Douglas Coupland

#7. I'm more of a thistle-peony-basil kind of girl.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#8. My, my. A body does get around.

William Faulkner

#9. Focusing on other people's flaws will distract you from seeing your own.

Habeeb Akande

#10. I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.

Jim Brown

#11. Any truth is better than indefinite doubt. - Sherlock Holmes, as recorded by John H. Watson, M.D., "The Adventure of the Yellow Face

Emma Jane Holloway

#12. When I look up to the sky between the narrow roofs, it reminds me of you, the one who is far, far away.

Masashi Kishimoto

#13. It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

R. Lee Ermey

#14. Because I was more often happy for other people, I got to spend more time being happy. And as I saw more light in everybody else, I seemed to have more myself. (250)

Victoria Moran

#15. The peasant also found another use for this sacred object. 'He says of the icon: "It's good for praying -- and you can cover the pots with it too.

Orlando Figes