Quotes About Algis

#1. There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.

Mark Z. Jacobson

#2. He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again.

Jane Austen

#3. I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#4. Rob Chilson's mordant wit will keep you turning the pages until the wee hours!

Algis Budrys

#5. They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her

Tracy Chevalier

#6. I have to have time to think. Why does time run on while a man thinks?

Algis Budrys

#7. Lilac makes on occasion a sound between a sniff and a snort that's as damning as all improper words in the language and, like them, can't be written down.

Leslie Ford

#8. Perhaps no theoretical man can be equal to such a burden: to feel knowledge as power when one's mind reshapes the world irrevocably, to see the light of truth as the agent of some dark majesty, is not grace but ordeal.

Algis Valiunas

#9. Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

#10. Constantly working outward, putting system after system inside the known universe, they were the bright hungry wave of mankind reaching out to gather in the stars.

Algis Budrys

#11. To succeed in life, succeed at being yourself.

Napoleon Hill

#12. By the way, in that same session an ad popped up that said, "Tired of masturbating?" I thought, "Nope. Try me again in about one-hundred-fifty years.

Adam Carolla

#13. I just do a random roulette wheel version of what I've recorded or sometimes tunes I haven't recorded. It's a collection of whatever happens, happens.

Leon Redbone

#14. Born to win.
May you live up to your highest calling.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. It's not really a curse or anything that you're blind; it's really a blessing.

The Mighty Hannibal

#16. Each increment of knowledge imparted in this way is so satisfying-and one's ignorance at every stage so consequential-that the process of learning BJJ can become remarkably addictive. I have never experienced anything quite like it.

Sam Harris

#17. I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. If one recognizes the supremacy of reason and applies it consistently, all the rest follows.

Ayn Rand

#18. Oppenheimer's theorizing was so startlingly original - so far in advance of the corroborating observations and so far off the beaten track of astrophysical research - that his colleagues' ignorance cost him the recognition he deserved.

Algis Valiunas

#19. Although Oppenheimer's mind was not the whiz-bang computer of a John von Neumann or the astral navigation system of a Hans Bethe, it processed other men's original contributions so adeptly that for multifaceted excellence it may well have been the finest scientific instrument of all.

Algis Valiunas

#20. What a delighted fascination it is, to stand aside and watch our dearest friend perform on stage without us.

Richard Bach

#21. Did she look different? She felt different, as if she had traveled a thousand miles and a hundred lifetimes in a few short minutes.

Jennifer Beckstrand