David Omar > David's Quotes

“Genes determine our risk for a disease, but our lifestyle and environment can either trigger or suppress those risks.”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“You know, when children are silent and proud, and they try to keep back their tears when they are in great trouble and suddenly break down, their tears fall in streams.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Just as anxiety can feed on itself, so can courage.”
― John J. Ratey, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

“La suciedad y la inmoralidad andan juntas. La mugre engendra enfermedad.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“We did everything adults would do. What went wrong?”
― William Golding, Lord of the Flies

“If you took the monsters' point of view, everything they did made perfect sense. The trick was learning to think like a monster.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

“Lorenz saw it differently. Yes, you could change the weather. You could make it do something different from what it would otherwise have done. But if you did, then you would never know what it would otherwise have done. It would be like giving an extra shuffle to an already well-shuffled pack of cards. You know it will change your luck, but you don’t know whether for better or worse.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“I respected my father, but I loved my mother”
― Adolf Hitler

“— Voy a decirte algo sobre el miedo, Odell, lo he sentido más veces de las que soy capaz de recordar. Todo el mundo lo siente. El que diga lo contrario es un embustero, está loco o está muerto.”
― E.M. Nathanson, Los doce del patíbulo I

“Perhaps the difference between us was that he [Adolf Hitler] took things seriously which seemed to me quite unimportant. Yes, this was one of his typical traits; everything aroused his interest and disturbed him – to nothing was he indifferent.”
― August Kubizek, The Young Hitler I Knew

“The theorist invents his companions, as a naïve Romeo imagined his ideal Juliet. The experimenter’s lovers sweat, complain, and fart.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“Por ese motivo la minería era un arte y una ciencia, se dijo; porque los mineros morían jóvenes, como los artistas.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“When information is cheap, attention becomes expensive.”
― James Gleick, The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood

“No es lo mismo que apuntar a alguien con una pistola. Con una pistola no hay que apuntar a menos que se esté dispuesto a disparar. Y no hay que disparar si no se está dispuesto a matar.”
― E.M. Nathanson, Los doce del patíbulo I

“In theory the World War II atomic bomb project was a problem in nuclear physics. In reality the nuclear physics had been mostly solved before the project began, and the business that occupied the scientists assembled at Los Alamos was a problem in fluid dynamics.”
― James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o'clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
― Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

“Yet, I can almost hear you saying, “Well, I’m not really a performer and I’m certainly not an actor; in fact, I’m far from it. Actors love the spotlight and can’t wait to get onstage. I’m shy and I get visibly nervous when I have to speak in front of others.”
Well, I have good news for you. That’s fantastic. No, it’s better than that. It’s a “you-just-won-the-lottery” kind of fantastic. You’re exactly the person for whom I’ve written this book.”
― Michael Port, Steal the Show: From Speeches to Job Interviews to Deal-Closing Pitches, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life

“Lo principal era tratar de no dejar nunca mal parado a un adversario, ashanti, fanti, mexicano o lo que fuere.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“Odiaba las minas de carbón. El oro era noble e inerte. El carbón, que había sido materia viva, continuaba vivo, exhalando gas mientras se transformaba en roca.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“La triangulación es el método del cartógrafo. Si conoce la posición y la altura de dos lugares y ve un tercero, puede establecer su correspondiente posición y altura. Los mapas son eso: triángulos invisibles.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“— ¿Le tiene miedo a Bill?
— Por supuesto que sí. Es violento, y ni la mitad de tonto de lo que parece.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“[...] cuanto más profunda está la veta de carbón, más inflamable es éste. Sin embargo, cuanto más pforundo, cuanto más duro es el carbón, más necesario se torna el uso de explosivos.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“— Siempre pensé que en tiempo de paz la profesión del soldado era pasar las enfermedades venéreas.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“La verdad es que un minero que no piensa que está trabajando en su propia sepultura es un tonto.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“Durante años me pasé diciendo lo mismo, o cosas peores. Porque me sentía abandonado, aunque ella no hubiera podido evitarlo, muriera o no. Me ayuda oír sus palabras, porque compruebo lo estúpidas y venenosas que son. Sobre todo estúpidas.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Rose

“No se sentía capaz de decir si la encontraba bonita. Para él era una chica blanca más. ¿Bonitas o simplemente mujeres de otra raza?”
― E.M. Nathanson, Los doce del patíbulo I

“They were after the one thing so primal that it could make a man forget Allah and act in implosive, desultory ways, no matter what prophecy held for him: sex.”
― Thomas Peele, Killing the Messenger: A Story of Radical Faith, Racism's Backlash, and the Assassination of a Journalist

“Reality for a young African American male in Richmond is measured by two things: If a day ends without his either killing someone or lying naked himself on a slab in the Contra Costa County coroner’s office, it is a success.”
― Thomas Peele

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar