Skyrockets Quotes

#1. As the number of unexplained, irreducibly complex biological systems increases, our confidence that Darwin's criterion of failure has been met skyrockets toward the maximum that science allows.

Michael Behe

#2. If you looked inside his brain at this moment you'd see all the little synapses, Catherine wheels and penny bangers and skyrockets, all firing off into space in some sparkling display of gathering momentum. I don't want to look into his brain. Looking into his eyes is bad enough.

Ellie Marney

#3. Poetry is a puppet-show, where riders of skyrockets and divers of sea fathoms gossip about the sixth sense and the fourth dimension.

Carl Sandburg

#4. I didn't even know what an Oscar was at the time.

Jean Simmons

#5. Man is meant for good but designed for evil.

Raheel Farooq

#6. The problem that we have with a victim mentality is that we forget to see the blessings of the day. Because of this, our spirit is poisoned instead of nourished.

Steve Maraboli

#7. Dachau-the significance of this name will never be erased from German history. It stands for all concentration camps which the Nazis established in their territory.

Eugen Kogon

#8. A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.

Marco Pierre White

#9. I loved being in the Senate. That was a wonderful experience.

John Ensign

#10. Oh my God. I just got dumped by a red headed mortician in a funeral home named Crummy's, after pretending to be a circus freak at a visitation I had just crashed. I was pretty sure there'd be no bouncing back from this. -Dakota Bombay

Leslie Langtry

#11. 'Queen of Hearts' is one I'm really proud of because I worked so hard on it, and then I was told it wasn't good enough to be included on an Allman Brothers album. That directly led me to go into the studio and cut 'Laid Back,' my first solo release. So 'Queen of Hearts' is special to me.

Gregg Allman

#12. A student under my care owes his first allegiance to himself and not to my specialty; and must not be burdened with my work as if he followed no other and had contracted no obligation under heaven but that of satisfying my requirements.

Jacques Barzun

#13. I am convinced that ... in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#14. Watching other people making friends, everywhere, as a dog makes friends. I mark the manner of these canine courtesies and think, here comes, thank Heaven, another enemy!

Edmond Rostand

#15. To me, that's where memories are very interesting because what happens when we start losing memories? What happens when you can't take your memories with you? Who are we without our memories, without our past?

Don Hertzfeldt

#16. [M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.

Brandon Bays

#17. ohmygod. did all hell just freeze over?

P.C. Cast

#18. He was the loser Indian father of a loser Indian son living in a world built for winners.

Sherman Alexie