Scaling And Polishing Quotes

#1. Science is about recognizing patterns. [ ... ] Everything depends on the ground rules of the observer: if someone refuses to look at obvious patterns because they consider a pattern should not be there, then they will see nothing but the reflection of their own prejudices.

Christopher Knight

#2. We didn't actually overspend our budget. The allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

Keith Davis

#3. Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day.

Nicolas Chamfort

#4. There are times when you have to rely on other people, sit back and let them help you, be quiet, be appreciative, and stay out of their way.

Jim Kokoris

#5. You know, Granna, going around saying how you don't watch TV... It's not even pretentious anymore... it's just plain out of it.

Donald Margulies

#6. I have seldom found a lot to love about my fellow human beings, even when I liked them;

Gene Wolfe

#7. And he became more and more miserable, until he felt he would explode like a New Year firecracker, where powder is packed into a paper cylinder, and remains quiet until the fuse is lit and it tears itself apart in the explosion.

Justin Hill

#8. No better way to help brighten humanity than uplifting others ... especially your friends

Timothy Pina

#9. I have covered wars, before the epidemic began and since. They are all ugly and painful and unjust, but for me, nothing has matched the dread I felt while walking through the Castro, the Village, or Dupont Circle at the height of the AIDS epidemic.

Michael Specter

#10. Those two need each other like a bullet needs a target

Wendy Higgins