Simplicio Mortel Quotes

#1. I've just completed Mike's [Mann] Nature trick of adding in the real temps to each series for the last 20 years (i.e. from 1981 onwards) and from 1961 for Keith's [Briffa] to hide the decline.

Phil Jones

#2. In the long term, to defeat this ideology [terrorism] - and they [terrorists] are bound by an ideology - you defeat it with a more hopeful ideology called freedom.

George W. Bush

#3. We often confuse determination with its evil twin: fixation. While determination is our ability to stand our ground while pursuing our goals. Fixation, on the other hand, is an unhealthy attachment to an ideal.

Venugopal Gupta

#4. I'm a girl standing in a tornado, pretending like it isn't even windy,

James Patterson

#5. The Master said, "You [Zilu], do you know what I have been trying to teach you? To say that you know something when you know it and to say that you do not know something when you do not know it - this is true knowing [zhi].

Confucius

#6. There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.

George Bernard Shaw

#7. Another thing that was unique about working on this stuff was that I was engineering it. I used many of the things I had learned while I was away from the band. It sort of vindicated my decision to leave in '87.

Lindsey Buckingham

#8. Given all the facts that I'm young and I'm in good health and I'm famous - that I have talent, I have money - given all these facts, I want to know why I'm so unhappy.

Paul Simon

#9. I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

John Phillips Marquand

#10. A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do for a living?" "I study astronomy," he replied. "Really? said the teenager, wide-eyed. "I finished astronomy last year."

James Keller

#11. In matters of healing, the body initiates and the mind follows.

Jonathan Kellerman

#12. I subject my sentences and the words to a kind of Grand Inquisition.

Lynne Tillman

#13. be an accomplishment. She was just glad

Evan Currie

#14. My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.

Anna Holmes