Bernard of Chartres Quotes
We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
Bernard of Chartres
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
J. Cole
I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.
Eden Hazard
I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
Pat Cash
I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
Kate Bush
It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
Kate McKinnon
We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
Yulia Tymoshenko
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,-being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
Athenaeus
Let me tell you about the nap. It's absolutely fantastic. When I was a kid, my father was always trying to tell me how to be a man. And he said - I was maybe nine - he said, 'Philip, whenever you take a nap, take your clothes off and put a blanket over you, and you're going to sleep better.' Well, as with everything, he was right.
Philip Roth
It's come to the point where you have people saying it's our Christian duty to embrace the homosexual movement. This is absurd.
Randall Terry
I know more about UFC than the wrestling circuit. I think everybody's a pretty good guy in the UFC.
Bryce Harper
My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.
David Frum
We are like dwarfs the moderns sitting on the shoulders of giants the ancients. Our glance can thus take in more things and reach farther than theirs. It is not because our sight is sharper nor our height greater than theirs; it is that we are carried and elevated by the high stature of the giants.
Bernard of Chartres