Warienna Quotes

#1. It's nice sometimes to be the river rather than the rock.

Jo Beverley

#2. Precisely where I feel my poverty is where I discover God's blessing.

Henri Nouwen

#3. My experience on 'The West Wing' was, I think, now rare in that I was pretty young, and I walked into this environment where Aaron Sorkin was giving me a script every week, and Thomas Schlamme and John Wells were keeping the studio off my back, at least as best as they could.

Alex Graves

#4. The truth is at the bottom of a well. You look in a well, and you see the sun or the moon, but if you jump in, there's no longer the sun or the moon; there's the truth. Leonardo Sciascia

Leonardo Sciascia

#5. Semantics, or the study of meaning, remained undeveloped, while phonetics made rapid progress and even came to occupy the central place in the scientific study of language.

Roman Jakobson

#6. I'd rather have a search engine or a compiler on a deserted island than a game.

John Carmack

#7. The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Richard Dawkins

#8. He felt his throat constrict. and was overcome with an emotion that he could not name. because it was a mixture of so many.

Louis De Bernieres

#9. Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is material or physical.

Rupert Sheldrake

#10. I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.

Beatrix Potter

#11. I am inherently a little brother - that's just my nature. It has to do with my sister being very strong and wanting to protect me. It's the natural order of things.

Jake Gyllenhaal