"He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?"

-- Elias Canetti

#Scratches Quotes #Statistics Quotes

“Anybody against women, against the ERA, should never be voted into office again.”
“A geometrical theory in physical interpretation can never be validated with mathematical certainty ... ; like any other theory of empirical science, it can acquire only a more or less high degree of confirmation.”

Source : Carl Gustav Hempel (2001). “The Philosophy of Carl G. Hempel: Studies in Science, Explanation, and Rationality”, p.28, Oxford University Press on Demand
“The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.”
“I’m just a beast, I’m just an animal and I’m waiting to get let out of that cage!”
“I've always gone out with much younger guys. But I rushed into relationships before really getting to know the person. What would come up as a warning sign within the first two weeks of dating would usually be the exact reason the relationship would end!”

Source : "'DWTS' Judge Carrie Ann Inaba Planning Summer Wedding to Accountant", www.foxnews.com. March 8, 2011.
“I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.”
“I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.”
“Shut up," I hissed. Ticked that he was taller than me, I stepped up onto a nearby coffee table. "I'm not in a cage anymore," I said, keeping enough presence of mind not to poke him in the chest with a finger. His face went startled, then cloric. "The only thing between your head and my foot becoming real close and personal right now is my questionable professionalism. And if you ever threaten me again, I'll slam you halfway across the room before you can say number-two pencil. Got it, you tall freak of nature?”

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