Venturella Resort Quotes

#1. It's just sewing words together. Random words in any order. It doesn't even have to mean anything. It just has to mean something to you.

Katie Kacvinsky

#2. Scientific research is a bottomless money pit. You can approximate Doing Science to standing on the Crack of Doom throwing banknotes down it by the double-handful, in the hope that if you choke the volcano with enough paper it will cough up the One Ring.

Charles Stross

#3. Can you identify in your own life speculations that became educated guesses and then truth? Have you ever seen your established truths upended, with a resulting revolution in your life?

Kip S. Thorne

#4. The most important tool you have on a resume is language.

Jay Samit

#5. Sometimes the more measurable drives out the most important.

Rene Dubos

#6. Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can't function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71

Nick Ortner

#7. Instead, there was only the kind of silence that comes when someone takes away a clock to be repaired and after a time you become aware of its absence because its gentle, reassuring tick is gone and you miss it so.

John Connolly

#8. We cut flowers because we think they're pretty, we cut ourselves because we think we're not.

Melanie Martinez

#9. The guard looked from one to the other. His mind was soon made up. His training led him to despise foreigners, and to respect and admire well-dressed gentleman who travelled first class.

Agatha Christie

#10. Her body was tense, her small teeth sunk into her upper lip. Her eyes flashed upward at Aloysius, and he started at what he saw in them.
Pain. It was normal to feel some pain at the bestowing of a Mark, but what he saw in Adele's eyes- was agony.

Cassandra Clare

#11. I am a lady young in beauty waiting
Until my truelove comes, and then we kiss.

John Crowe Ransom

#12. Still, he was pleased to know that he could recall so much of the play and passed the rest of the journey pleasantly in reciting lines to himself, being careful not to snort.

Diana Gabaldon

#13. The crisis is not an opportunity to change the character of Louisiana's political order. We must not use the crisis to turn Louisiana into a red state
this is a rainbow state.

Jesse Jackson

#14. Yes, testosterone-sodden young men too unattractive to get a woman in this world might be desperate enough to go for 72 private virgins in the next.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Showing up for another says, "I see you. Your pain is known, and though I cannot make it better, I'm here and that's what matters.

Kara Tippetts