Vigda Rail Quotes

#1. Science is the only thing that disproves science, and it does it all the time.

Matt Dillahunty

#2. Why did death make life taste so much sweeter? Why could the heart love only what it could also lose?

Cornelia Funke

#3. They can herd you only because you can't herd yourselves. Forget the flock. Forget the dogs. Herd yourselves (p. 223).
Melmouth, of the George Flock in Three Bags Full

Leonie Swann

#4. We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future.

Bernard Lown

#5. Yet he argued that even a tedious topic can take on a certain fascination if you make an effort to look at it afresh: The subject must be made to show new aspects of itself; to prompt new questions; in a word, to change. From an unchanging subject the attention inevitably wanders away.

Winifred Gallagher

#6. In the interest rate area, traders have for a long time used a version of what is known as Black's model for European bond options; another version of the same model for caps and floors; and yet another version of the same model for European swap options.

John Hull

#7. There is no wrong way to be a woman

Denise Bidot

#8. I alternate between feeling incredibly lucky that
I've gotten away with almost everything I wanted to do, and feeling
like I've been shafted.

James Toback

#9. Memory is often less about the truth than about what we want it to be.

David Halberstam

#10. Life's supposed to be hard. If your life is too easy, that means you're doing it wrong.

Seth King

#11. Dating is like nightfall--there's got to be a mourning after.

Lois Greiman

#12. As an actor, if you want to while shooting, you can run back to your trailer and take a nap. But you cannot do that while directing.

Misha Collins

#13. Contemporary feminism is enamored with consumer choice and has fully accepted it as a substitute for freedom.

Holly Grigg-Spall

#14. As my mom says, I was a little bit of a slacker in high school. I really was just kind of unmotivated, a little bit lazy, so my grades weren't that good.

Savannah Guthrie

#15. Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

Friedrich August Von Hayek