There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree to be weary alike of pleasures and of cares; that the powerful and the weak, the celebrated and obscure, join in one common wish, and implore from nature's hand the nectar of oblivion.
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
I always found myself in the company of Australians, who were like a reminder that I'd touched bottom.
It is easy to say something new, if all senses one will eschew. But hardly ever is found, that the new is also sound.
You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me. . . It's called senility.
My own view is that no major advance was ever found as a result of a committee's recommendation. . . We should be honest in telling these agencies we often don't know where some ideas are going to lead, but we hope they are going to clarify a problem.
Looking into it a bit, Jamie found that the model used by Wall Street to price LEAPs, the Black-Scholes option pricing model, made some strange assumptions.
But I found that being an artist and doing accurate work is very difficult.
The soul at its highest is found like God, but an angel gives a closer idea of Him. That is all an angel is: an idea of God.
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee. ' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.
The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.
I started, me by myself, found a great co-founder, got up to 95 people, and then it ended with me by myself again.
A highbrow is a man who has found something more interesting than women.
Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
I've been cursed for delving into the mysteries of life. Perhaps death is sacred, and I've profaned it. Oh, what a wonderful vision it was. I dreamed of being the first to give to the world the secret that God is so jealous of, the formula for life. Think of the power, to create a man. And I did, I did it, I created a man. And who knows, in time I could have trained him to do my will. I could have bred a race, I might even have found the secret of eternal life.
There are so many different kinds of writing and so many ways to work that the only rule is this: do what works. Almost everything has been tried and found to succeed for somebody. The methods, even the ideas of successful writers contradict each other in a most heartening way, and the only element I find common to all successful writers is persistence-an overwhelming determination to succeed.