Quotes of: Pierre Keyword

This just gets worse and worse," Rob Pierre sighed as he skimmed Leonard Boardman's synopsis of his latest gleanings from the Solarian League reporters covering the PRH. "How can one person—one person, Oscar!—do this much damage? She's like some ...

Ashes of Victory

In football, you're dealing with grown men. In gymnastics, you're dealing with prepubescent teenage girls. There's a huge difference. At that age, you're not confident enough to have a voice.

Dominique Moceanu

There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.

Nancy Kerrigan

I am of the opinion that the appreciation and the desire for what is good takes more study and insight than does the understanding and test for the best music and art.

Laurance Rockefeller

The scientist believes in proof without certainty, the bigot in certainty without proof.

Science and Creationism

The best diet is the one you don't know you're on.

Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think

I can't repair my wall as fast as you can tear it down.

Santuario

Cervantes' text and Menard's are verbally identical; but the second is almost infinitely richer.

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

Leaders in touch with heaven can move earth

A Work of Heart : Understanding How God Shapes Spiritual Leaders

Compassion may be defined as the capacity to be attentive to the experience of others, to wish the best for others, and to sense what will truly serve others.

Joan Halifax

The sand stones had fragments of charcoal on some surfaces but found no recognisable fossils.

George Mercer Dawson

The idea of innovation is the idea of progress stripped of the aspirations of the Enlightenment, scrubbed clean of the horrors of the twentieth century, and relieved of its critics.

Jill Lepore

In the criminal law [...] imprisonment should be resorted to only after the most anxious consideration.

Pius Langa

I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material but I know it when I see it.

Potter Stewart

In fact, a fundamental interdependence exists between the personal right to liberty and the personal right to property.

Potter Stewart

It is difficult to imagine evolution in alien planets operating in any manner other than Darwinian.

Simon Conway Morris

It's both Indiana Jones and 'National Geographic' that inspired me to be an Egyptologist.

Sarah Parcak

I keep being surprised by the amount of archaeological sites and features that are left to find all over the world.

Sarah Parcak

Despite outsiders being invited to write software, the iPhone thus remains tightly tethered to its vendor - the way that the Kindle is controlled by Amazon.

Jonathan Zittrain

The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book.

Leland Ryken

I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone.

Marvin Harris