Dorothy L. Sayers quotes and words of wisdom |  | "Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced
old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force." | |  | Found in the topic Age.
| | | "The biologist can push it back to the original protist, and the
chemist can push it back to the crystal, but none of them touch the real
question of why or how the thing began at all. The astronomer goes back
untold million of years and ends in gas and emptiness, and then the
mathematician sweeps the whole cosmos into unreality and leaves one with
mind as the only thing of which we have any immediate apprehension. Cogito
ergo sum, ergo omnia esse videntur. All this bother, and we are no further
than Descartes. Have you noticed that the astronomers and mathematicians
are much the most cheerful people of the lot? I suppose that perpetually
contemplating things on so vast a scale makes them feel either that it
doesn"t matter a hoot anyway, or that anything so large and elaborate must
have some sense in it somewhere." | | | Found in the topic Unsorted.
| | | "A facility for quotation covers the absence of original
thought." | | | Found in the topic Quotations.
| | | "There is perhaps one human being in a thousand who is passionately
interested in his job for the job"s sake. The difference is that if that
one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately
keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is afreak." | | | Found in the topic Job.
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Interesting Quotes
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.John Kenneth Galbraith - US (Canadian-born) administrator & economist (1908 - )
Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.Peter Sellers - English comic movie actor (1925 - 1980)
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