Quimby Quotes

#1. The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

Terry Pratchett

#2. I am not a pest, Ramona Quimby told her big sister Beezus.

Beverly Cleary

#3. Roxanne Quimby wanted money and power, and I was just a pillar on the way to that success.

Burt Shavitz

#4. Ladies and gentlemen, Im going to prove to you not only that Freddy Quimby is guilty, but that he is also innocent of not being guilty

Lionel

#5. You must not mistake passing local cloud cover, for general darkness.

Neal A. Maxwell

#6. I don't want you to taint that fragile coat of astonishing colors created by my illusions, which no painter has ever been able to reproduce. Strange, isn't it, that no chemical will give a human being the iridescence that illusions give them?

Anais Nin

#7. The aeroplane should open a fruitful occupation for women. I see no reason they cannot realize handsome incomes by carrying passengers between adjacent towns, from parcel delivery, taking photographs or conducting schools of flying.

Harriet Quimby

#8. I would love a bowl of Frosties, but I start the day with something healthier like a bowl of yoghurt or berries.

Rachel Stevens

#9. Some characters are like some bodies in chemistry; very good, perhaps, in themselves, yet fly off and refuse the least conjunction with each other.

Sir Fulke Greville

#10. If a woman wants to fly, first of all she must, of course, abandon skirts and don a knickerbocker uniform.

Harriet Quimby

#11. I spread my fingers outward,
letting the knife tip of my
middle finger rip the sky as
it tares a rift in the moon.

A.P. Sweet

#12. Science is wisdom reduced to practice.

Phineas Quimby

#13. The silkworm spins out his life, and, wrapping himself in his labor, dies.

Phineas Quimby

#14. Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state ... Time, we say, is Lethe; but change of air is a similar draught, and, if it works less thoroughly, does so more quickly.

Thomas Mann

#15. A rebellion against God, even as believers, is fueled by the toxic fumes of unbelief.

James MacDonald

#16. There are some some times in life where you have to let your feelings go and do what must be done

Evan Meekins

#17. The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

Albert Einstein

#18. The men flyers have given out the impression that aeroplaning is very perilous work, something that an ordinary mortal should not dream of attempting. But when I saw how easily the man flyers manipulated their machines I said I could fly.

Harriet Quimby

#19. It may seem strange to those in health that our beliefs affect us. The fact is, there is nothing of us but belief. It is the whole capital and stock in trade of man. It is all that can be changed, and embraces everything man has made or ever will make.

Phineas Quimby

#20. Our World has becoime a neighbourhood without becoming a brotherhood.

Billy Graham

#21. Gather the shards of your courage. Patch together what resolve you can. We'll find this thing - and kill it.

Janet Morris

#22. The inherent preferences of organizations are clarity, certainty and perfection. The inherent nature of human relationships involves ambiguity, uncertainty, and imperfection. How one honors, balances, and integrates the needs of both is the real trick of feedback.

Richard Pascale

#23. One thing is certain: the time will come when the opinions of priests and doctors must give way to the science of life; for their opinions lead to death and misery, and the science of life is health and happiness.

Phineas Quimby

#24. There is no reason why the aeroplane should not open up a fruitful occupation for women.

Harriet Quimby

#25. I saw at once that I had only to rise in my machine, fix my eyes upon the castle, fly over it and speed directly across to the French coast. It seemed so easy that it looked like a cross-country flight. I am glad I thought so and felt so.

Harriet Quimby

#26. (You think I'm gonna tell you how much I spend on fro yo? Are you kidding me? We just met.

Brian Donovan

#27. The mind is matter in solution and matter is mind in form.

Phineas Quimby

#28. I was annoyed from the start by the attitude of doubt by the spectators that I would never really make the flight. This attitude made me more determined than ever to succeed.

Harriet Quimby

#29. I decided to masturbate with shampoo instead of conditioner today. Because yolo. Things Jesus never said.

Dave Matthes

#30. Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

Phineas Quimby

#31. The amazing criteria by which Christ will judge is whether we feed the hungry or not

Sunday Adelaja