School Preparatory England Quotes

#1. The story of the memoir is a story of me creating certain narratives so that I could live with my own experience and with the uneasy relationship between what I was doing and what I believed in - or what I saw as an uneasy relationship between those two things.

Melissa Febos

#2. If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

Freeman Dyson

#3. The first years of my life are of no imprtance. At the age of nine, I was packed off to a preparatory school in the South of England, and for the next four years led the usual life of a preparatory-school boy. I indulged in midnight feasts and was periodically beaten.

Ludovic Kennedy

#4. Be patient, for it is from doubt that knowledge is born.

Khalil Gibran

#5. What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

Alice Walker

#6. Romanticism is not just a mode; it literally eats into every life. Women will never get rid of just waiting for the right man.

Anita Brookner

#7. I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons.

J. Michael Straczynski

#8. I met P. Diddy. Or Diddy. I like to call him Puffy because, let's be honest, that's who he is.

Hayley Williams

#9. The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

Chris Anderson

#10. We also pass a farmer in his yard, power-washing a donkey with a high-pressure hose.

Simon Armitage

#11. If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

Penelope Fitzgerald

#12. It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected from all the books written in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the most paltry abridgement used at preparatory schools in England.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#13. There is no beast without cruelty

Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose there. They must be put down on paper, one after the other.

Camilo Jose Cela

#15. Philosophers of science have repeatedly demonstrated that more than one theoretical construction can always be placed upon a given collection of data.

Thomas Kuhn

#16. A coward never forgives.

Laurence Sterne