Where Sharks Are Found Quotes

#1. If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.

Niels Bohr

#2. Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

Henry Petroski

#3. The first season [of Jessica Jones] exceeded my expectations already, so I'm just waiting to see what will happen in the second season.

Rachael Taylor

#4. Novels arise out of the shortcomings of history.

Novalis

#5. Hermione was now refusing to speak to Harry and Ron, but she was such a bossy know-it-all that they saw this as an added bonus.

J.K. Rowling

#6. I would point out that Japan's proposal at the Versailles Peace Conference on the principle of racial equality was rejected by delegates such as those from Britain and the United States.

Hideki Tojo

#7. Self-injury is a sign of distress not madness. We should be congratulated on having found a way of surviving.

Corey Anderson

#8. Beauty today can have no other measure except the depth to which a work resolves contradictions. A work must cut through the contradictions and overcome them, not by covering them up, but by pursuing them.

Theodor W. Adorno

#9. Go in close, and when you think you are too close, go in closer.

Thomas McGuire

#10. I think every big town should contain artificial waterfalls that people could descend in very fragile canoes, and they should contain bathing pools full of mechanical sharks. Any person found advocating a preventive war should be condemned to two hours a day with these ingenious monsters.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Before, she would have said, "I know," that peculiar American expression that professed agreement rather than knowledge

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#12. If Glendower had not saved Gansey's life, he did not know who to thank, or who to be, or how to live.

Maggie Stiefvater

#13. Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Kenneth Tynan