Slick Spanish Sayings

#1. No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again ... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.

Anne Lamott

#2. The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.

Albert Camus

#3. A carbon nanotube is just a graphene sheet that's rolled up seamlessly, and this happens in nature; carbon nanotubes are found in mineral deposits around the planet.

Mildred S. Dresselhaus

#4. At such moments, I felt that we were like the people in California who live in enormous houses on the sides of cliffs, ghat our lives were beautiful but precarious, their foundations vulnerable.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#5. Anything they have to advertise is something you don't need.

Kelly Coyne

#6. You work [as an actor] for a bit, and then the job ends 'cause you get thrown off a bridge. And then, you suddenly don't have a career and you have to wait for the next bit to come along. It's the most strange profession in the world.

David Oakes

#7. You've buttered your bread, now sleep in it.

Gracie Allen

#8. The written word is the link between the past and the future.

Lincoln Barnett

#9. I see the world in rectangles. If I am talking to someone, I find myself analysing their face, working out how to recreate it in bricks.

Nathan Sawaya

#10. George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

Elisabeth Elliot

#11. Success for open source is when the term 'open source' becomes a non-factor in the decision making process, when people hear about Linux and compare it to Windows NT, and they compare it on the feature set and don't have much of an excuse not to use it.

Brian Behlendorf

#12. With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Because as far as your brain's concerned, it is real.

Rony Abovitz

#13. I flipped back through the pad of paper while I thought about what Stephen Hawking would do next.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#14. If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies
mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies. His voice was choked in his throat.

Elizabeth Gaskell