"The besetting evil of our age is the temptation to squander and dilute thought on a thousand different lines of inquiry."

-- John Herschel

#Evil Quotes #Temptation Quotes #Age Quotes

“A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.”
“Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner, the modern man seems to judge a man's moral standards by his cleanliness, and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.”
“Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have.”
“I wouldnâ€™t swap Paul Scholes for anybody. He is quite simply the most complete footballer I have ever played with. He is the best.”
“I don't have some songwriting formula that I kinda go by. Usually it just comes by way of inspiration. Sometimes I'm inspired by a melody first and sometimes I'm inspired by a lyric. Typically, I'm inspired by an idea for a lyric and then after we get the lyric going then we write a melody to it.”

Source : "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.
“I have a hard time watching people getting punched on screen; I have to close my eyes a lot.”
“Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.”
“I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours.”

You may also like:

Charles Babbage
Mathematician
Charles Darwin
Naturalist
Charles Lyell
Lawyer
Erykah Badu
Singer-songwriter
Henry Fox Talbot
Inventor
Julia Margaret Cameron
Photographer
Louis Daguerre
Artist
William Herschel
Astronomer
William Whewell
Polymath