Sandford Fleming Quotes

#1. This idea [standardized time zones] was first advanced and fought for by Sandford Fleming of Canada and Charles F. Dowd of the United States. I mention them chiefly because like so many benefactors of mankind they have been rewarded by total obscurity.

Isaac Asimov

#2. It's little quirks like this that could make life difficult for a chess machine.

Bobby Fischer

#3. It was an unbroken network of causality leading back to the first human who wasn't a chimp. And farther back, to the coalescing of the planets around the sun. If you wish to call that God, go ahead.

Orson Scott Card

#4. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.

Bob Marley

#5. Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

Napoleon Hill

#6. We're not splitting atoms here; we're trying to entertain people.

Boomer Esiason

#7. The art of writing books is not yet invented. But it is at the point of being invented. Fragments of this nature are literary seeds. There may be many an infertile grain among them: nevertheless, if only some come up!

Novalis

#8. Paper is the strongest material in the world. Things under which a mountain will crumble, you can place on paper and it will hold: beauty at its most intense; love at its fiercest; the greatest grief; the greatest rage.

Nadeem Aslam

#9. Real wisdom is the ability to understand the incredible extent to which you bullshit yourself every single moment of every day.

Brad Warner

#10. It is characteristic of the military mentality that non-human factors ... are held essential, while the human being, his desires and thoughts-in short, the psychological factors-are considered as unimportant and secondary.

Albert Einstein

#11. Choose to believe in your own myth
your own glamour
your own spell
a young woman who does this
(even if she is just pretending)
has everything ...

Francesca Lia Block