Tersia Quotes

#1. This process of professionalising the obvious fosters a sense of mystery around science, and health advice, which is unnecessary and destructive. More than anything, more than the unnecessary ownership of the obvious, it is disempowering.

Ben Goldacre

#2. To be endowed with strength by nature, to be actuated by the powers of the mind, and to have a certain spirit almost divine infused into you.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#3. There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

Aeschylus

#4. Being a child is horrible. It is slightly better than being a tree or a piece of heavy machinery but not half as good as being a domestic cat.

Julie Burchill

#5. We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.

Rabindranath Tagore

#6. Poor Flemps and his wife - they little thought what a serpent of deduction they had been nourishing in their cab.

Andrew Forrester

#7. So I've always been kind of an apocalyptic kind of kid, and looking back at the movies I've done, there's some kind of apocalypse in them. So that must be what scares me ... besides Republicans.

Joe Dante