Oh Land Quotes

What kind of a world do we live in that has room for dog yoga but not for Esperanto?

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

Despite our significant public-policy differences, I commend Jim Wallis for advocating religious belief as an invaluable resource in addressing the urgent moral and social crises of our time.

It is a curious property of research activity that after the problem has been solved the solution seems obvious.

Look, if the picture you get instantly is as beautiful as the picture you get by waiting seven days, then it is absolute madness to say that there is virtue in waiting.

There's no scientist I know who wouldn't rather be a charlatan. And when circumstances allow you to be both, why it's great fun!

We have to keep in practice like musicians. Besides, there are still potentialities to be realized in color film. To us, it's just like bringing up a child. You don't stop after you've had it.

I believe quite simply that the small company of the future will be as much a research organization as it is a manufacturing company.

Famous in our circles is the story of the visiting English banker who in 1948 upon seeing our model 95 camera commented, 'Very interesting, but why would one want a picture in a minute?'

We took on things which people might think would take a year or two. They weren't particularly hard. What was hard was believing they weren't hard.

In a few wretched buildings, we created a whole new industry with international significance.

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it.

I don't mind conducting the orchestra if I can play the violin.

Why do I want to believe what I believe?... Science, to put it somewhat vulgarly, is a technique to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

You think that the only thing that counts is the bottom line! What a presumptuous thing to say. The bottom line is in heaven.

I believe each incoming freshman [in college] must be started at once on his own research project if we are to preserve his secret dream of greatness and make it come true.

But one way or another competing and weeding takes place . . . or a race goes downhill.

Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.

Many older physicians had gone to their graves calling Pasteur a liar, a fool, or worse---and without examining evidence which their “common sense” told them was impossible.

As for logic and internal consistency, these mundane rules do not apply to sacred writings and never have...

Because the world has gone nutty and art always paints the spirit of its times

The slickest way in the world to lie is to tell the right amount of truth at the right time-and then shut up.

. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

The worker picked up Pakhom’s spade, dug a grave, and buried him - six feet from head to heel, exactly the amount of land a man needs.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

…the greatest danger to man in space was man himself.

Bir kaplanın sırtında yolculuk etmenin en önemli kuralı, kulaklarını asla bırakmamaktır.

Başkalarının işine burnunu sokmamak insanın sahip olabileceği bilgeliğin yüzde seksenidir... kalan yüzde yirmi de pek önemli değildir zaten.

A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.

Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?

Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in 'measurements' when he did not know what he was measuring.

All those religions--they contradict each other on every point but every one of them is filled with ways to help people to be brave enough to laugh even though they know they are dying.

Property is not the natural and obvious and inevitable concept that most people think it is.

You like to think that people, in general, and I mean on the scale of generations, are learning from their mistakes, getting better. But with what all I seen, I don't know if I could believe that.

Stairs to success are made of people.

Optimal nutrition is eating the right things, in the right amounts, at the right time.

A king who is renowned for mercy, " said the Arobern, with heavy irony, "must also be renowned in equal measure for injustice.

They all come innocent in court.

What a lot of humans fail to see is that they don't need to do anything to be valuable--they already are.

This is why magic is dangerous. It lures you in. It makes you curious.

Life gives you ups and downs. If you remember only the downs, you are not living your life.

The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic

While the truth is putting on its shoes, the lie becomes a champion of a long-distance running.

Don't draw the line before stupidity. It'll take it as a start.

It's shameful for a devil to be good.

I've been to many beauty salons. No one gave me a certificate.

If I knew he loved me for my wealth, I would have told him I was richer.