Diana Gabaldon Quotes

What underlies great science is what underlies great art, whether it is visual or written, and that is the ability to distinguish patterns out of chaos.

Diana Gabaldon

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 11, 1952

Topics

ScienceGreatArtChaosAbilityOut

Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?

Johann Kaspar Lavater

HeartWarmYouSeenEver

I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.

Jerome K. Jerome

LifeSadFunJoyMeSadness

That's one of the great privileges, being an actor, is that someone pays you and sends you off to learn about something that otherwise you'd never know about.

Joel Edgerton

GreatLearnSomeoneYouKnowActor

A young female essayist saying they're influenced by Joan Didion is like a young female singer-songwriter saying they're influenced by Joni Mitchell.

Meghan Daum

SayingYoungLikeInfluencedFemale

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.

Robert James Graves

SoundHimHearingTrumpetSenseEar

Eating's pretty major; we have feasts at our house.

Trudie Styler

EatingHousePrettyOurMajor

I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.

Tom Stoppard

LongEnvyPersonFallingHappen

Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.

Lord Robertson

ActionFastWillBecomeMoreSuffer

We need to face it, as a nation we have a reliance on petroleum.

Lisa Murkowski

FaceNeedNationPetroleumReliance

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

Donny Osmond

LifeSimpleLookSimple LifeNice

It's not about ego. Really. If it was ego, I'd be telling you about my awesome... oh, never mind.

Bruce Perens

MindEgoYouNeverAwesomeTelling

In the discovery of secret things and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated arguments than from probable conjectures and the opinions of philosophical speculators of the common sort.

William Gilbert

OpinionsStrongerDiscoveryHidden

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