Smaragdine Tablet Quotes

#1. As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind ...

William Butler Yeats

#2. Like craftsmen in a medieval guild, NASA engineers hoped that one day their children would decide to take up the mantle of the profession they held so dear.

Margot Lee Shetterly

#3. Hanging on to a resentment, someone once said, is like drinking poison and hoping it will kill someone else.

Alice May

#4. A piece of fabric can get me going.

Anna Sui

#5. Maybe they didn't choose locks because love is permanent. Maybe they chose locks because emotions bind us into place. They weigh us down.

Cora Carmack

#6. There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves.

Ann Radcliffe

#7. Among the guitarists, Wes Montgomery is fantastic. He's always good to let you know what the art form is all about. It's the same still life that everybody is painting, but in comes Wes Montgomery, and it's right there!

Bill Cosby

#8. Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

Edward Young

#9. It's funny how the whole team gets quiet when you're about to win a Daytona 500.

Joey Logano

#10. When reached for comment on the charges, Martha didn't say much, (only) that a subpoena should be served with a nice appetizer.

Conan O'Brien

#11. Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

Pat Summitt

#12. Well, games of chance and I are no strangers. This trading in papers . . . is it a bit like gambling?" "It's exactly like gambling, Prince Jalan.

Mark Lawrence

#13. It is always cheaper to do the job right the first time.

Phil Crosby

#14. The Iranians excel at identifying potential recruits for terrorist attacks, and then recruiting and training them.

Michael Ledeen

#15. The creative imagination is the essential element of a true scientist, and fairy tales are the childhood stimulus to this quality.

Albert Einstein