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Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit.
~ Jack Vance
...in principle, one can predict everything in the universe solely from physical laws. Thus, the long-standing 'first cause' problem intrinsic in cosmology has been finally dispelled.
~ Li Zhi Fang
"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?
~ John Connolly, The Gates
We often hear that mathematics consists mainly of 'proving theorems.' Is a writer's job mainly that of 'writing sentences?
~ Gian-Carlo Rota
Enough of medical ethics. Let Uncle Hippocrates rest in peace. It's time to send an S.O.S to Uncle Omar Khayyam instead.
~ Anurag Shourie, Half A Shadow
It did not last: the Devil howling 'Ho, Let Einstein be, ' restored the status quo.
~ John Collings Squire
Biogeography typically trumps taxonomy and anticipates molecular phylogeny
~ Dennis McCarthy
The government will see that human spaceflight is useful - for science and the economy - and inspirational.
~ Helen Sharman
The pimp has a grin, never a smile.
~ Jean Genet, The Balcony
The muscles used to make a smile actually send a biochemical message to our nervous system that it is safe to relax the flight of freeze response.
~ Tara Brach
Great American union rules with a fist, a smile, and a gun. Great American napalm lights up the sky like the sun.
~ Ray Davies
A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle.
~ Oscar Wilde
Head's all empty, I don't care,' he'd sing to me, quoting the Grateful Dead, and I'd force a smile, thinking that my head was never empty and that if it ever was, you could be darn sure I'd care.
~ Jennifer Weiner
Imagine me; I shall not exist if you do not imagine me; try to discern the doe in me, trembling in the forest of my own iniquity; let's even smile a little. After all, there is no harm in smiling.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I do remember smiling quite a bit inside it though since I knew it wouldn't be seen on film - so of course while the poor planet is being blown up I'm smiling and laughing like mad!
~ David Prowse
My soul, never laugh at sin's fooleries, lest thou come to smile at sin itself. It is thine enemy, and thy Lord's enemy.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There are few faces that can afford to smile: a smile is sometimes bewitching, in general vapid, often a contortion.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
I smile at her. "You're an angel." "Nah," she says. "I'm just a girl crazy in love.
~ Pittacus Lore
Desecration is the smile on my face.
~ Anthony Kiedis
He continues to smile expectantly. I take a step back. I don't want to catch whatever he has. He is a disturbing out-of-uniform Santa.
~ Augusten Burroughs
Levi was smiling. He kicked her chair again.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.
~ Ilona Andrews
I have a vamp body for you," Andrea said. "It's in the freezer." I gave her a nice smile. "You shouldn't have.
~ Ilona Andrews
And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody." "And yours," he replied with a smile, "is willfully to misunderstand them.
~ Jane Austen