"Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved."

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Richard Whately

#Discovery Quotes #Persecution Quotes

“I was not much used to women except for mothers. Everything I did, they did different.”

Source : Daniel Woodrell (1999). “Ride with the Devil”, p.93, Simon and Schuster
“I thought my inner voice was telling me it was time to sell my house and get rid of everything that I had. But what I was told was to just make my load lighter.”

Source : Source: www.edgemagazine.net
“My wife gets so jealous. She came home from work and was mad at me because there was a pretty girl on the bus she thought I would have liked.”
“Constructing passive sentences is a way of concealing your own testicles.”

Source : "Fictional character: Dr. Ernesto Morales". "The Treatment", www.imdb.com. 2006.
“Everything begins in Paris.”

Source : Nancy Spain (1964). “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way”
“I went to an arts school as a kid. We had to take dance every other day, along with drama, music and visual arts. However, wearing black tights was something I dreaded... and still have nightmares about it to this day. I think I was a pretty good dancer. I suppose that training helped me land parts in musicals... or has just given me nightmares!”
“I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.”

Source : "Interview with Callie Khouri, Director of Mad Money". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 17, 2008.
“My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.”

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