J Frank Dobie Famous Quotes
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another.
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.
Conform and be dull.
J Frank Dobie Quotations
"In love, as in war, a fortress that parleys is half taken."
Margaret of Valois
"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."
Vernon Sanders Law
"Frank Jane, since I've met you I've noticed things that I never knew were there before birds singing, dew glistening on a newly formed leaf, stoplights."
Naked Gun From the Files of Police Squad
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Gagehot
"When you die, if you go somewhere where they ask you a bunch of questions about your life and what you learned and all, I think a good way to get out of it is just to say, 'No speaka English.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
Aubrey Eben
Nothing can cause turmoil and the defeat of accomplishment as quickly as disorganization.
Unknown
"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills we shall never surrender."
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."
Samuel McChord Crothers
"I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it."
Gale Sayers