Steno Quotes

#1. I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.

Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

#2. He [Nicolaus Steno] told the audience, Beautiful is what we see. More beautiful is what we understand. Most beautiful is what we do not comprehend.

Mira Bartok

#3. The only kind of notebook I actively dislike is the steno pad, entirely because of that vertical line down the middle of the page. I presume it has some arcane secretarial use, but to me, it's both ugly and confusing.

Michael Dirda

#4. Father Nicholas Steno, is often identified as the father of geology.

Thomas E. Woods Jr.

#5. My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.

Patricia Montandon

#6. Diaper spelled backwards is repaid , think about it.

Marshall McLuhan

#7. failure is a manifestation of learning and exploration.

Ed Catmull

#8. Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through.

Paul Gascoigne

#9. The leisure class is one in which individuals have sufficient economic security and sufficient leisure to find opportunity for a variety of satisfactions in life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Only one who has achieved immortality of awareness can laugh with life and laugh with death.

Frederick Lenz

#11. The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise.

Dean Koontz

#12. Tucking my nose into a book makes me completely oblivious to my surroundings. I would have made a terrible spy in the army
the first person to hand me a novel would have been able to shoot my head clean off without me noticing.

Alyxandra Harvey

#13. Why is ADHD so much more common in the United States today than it was 30 or 40 years ago? And why is it so much more common today in the United States than elsewhere? My answer is "the medicalization of misbehavior.

Leonard Sax

#14. I will not counter the insanity of the PATRIOT Act with an overblown fear of my rights being taken away.

Penn Jillette

#15. At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the
tone in which they are uttered.

Paul Bourget

#16. Being in bliss is like being in love. Being in love is like being in bliss. You are floating in the clouds. You are perceiving love wherever you go.

Miguel Ruiz

#17. The widow cries out at the door, The light of my mind has gone out, O my mother, with his death. So cry out, O soul brides of the Husband Lord, and dwell on the Glorious Praises of the True Lord.

Guru Nanak

#18. Whatever baggage you have, use it. Conquer it. Don't let it stop you.

Sara Shepard

#19. There are those among us who would have us say that the mysteries of the brain are completely solved and little needs to be added to its knowledge. It is as if these fortunate persons had been present when this magnificent organ was created.

Nicolas Steno

#20. Life is a worthwhile journey.

Lailah Gifty Akita