Nature & World Sayings

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down.

I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

The greatest pains to human nature are the pains of patience.

I put my thumb up and I could hide the whole Earth behind my thumb. I felt like a little tiny speck in this vast universe.

I felt very well in weightlessness, like a fish in water.

I am like a plant that has been overwatered.

Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger.

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

I was arrested on December 1st, 1955 for refusing to stand up on the orders of the bus driver, after the white seats had been occupied in the front.

A woman is like a tea bag—you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.

Niggas are the most together people on the planet—we just don’t know it yet.

A weird time in which we are alive. We can travel anywhere we want, even to other planets. And for what? To sit day after day, declining in morale and hope.

The experience of one's own country and of other countries, the experience of men and women, of cities and of the earth, is an experience which can only be had in freedom.

The economic ills of the world are not incurable. They are the result of the failure of men to use the vast resources of the earth for the benefit of all.

When we're thinking small, that's another thing we're always on the lookout for: big egos. You don't have to have a small ego to work here, but you'd better know how to make it look small, or you might wind up in trouble.

If any of my competitors were drowning, I'd stick a hose in their mouth and turn on the water. It is ridiculous to call this an industry. This is not. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I'll kill 'em, and I'm going to kill 'em before they kill me.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, he said, for he will be going out on a day when he should not. But we do not choose the day for the sea. She chooses it for us.

Religion is nothing but the fantastic reflection in men's minds of those external forces which control their daily life, a reflection in which earthly forces assume the form of supernatural forces.

Diego: Nothing compares to your hands. Nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My body is filled with you for days and days, you are the mirror of the night, the violent flash of lighting. The dampness of the earth. The hollow of your armpits is my…