Disregarded Quote by Lucio Russo

Mr Blawke always reminded me of a heron; I'm not sure why. Something to do with a sense of rapacious stillness, perhaps, and also…

— Iain Banks

“A little later, as we talked of the Maniot dirges by which I was obsessed, I was surprised to hear this bloodshot-eyed and barefoot…

— Patrick Leigh Fermor

“I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up…

— Tom Stoppard

How heron comes It is a negligence of the mind not to notice how at dusk heron comes to the pond and stands there…

— Mary Oliver

Archimedes to Eratosthenes greeting. ... certain things first became clear to me by a mechanical method, although they had to be demonstrated by geometry…

— Archimedes

“Dittany hadn't lived in Lobelia Falls all her life without coming to realize that walls do in fact have ears and every little bird…

— Alisa Craig

“We crossed one of the subterranean rivers, then wound our wag through the library quarter and the Chamber of Birds. (Carter says I should…

— Rick Riordan

“The same river can never be crossed twice. The flowing water has no memory of footprints.”

— Robert R. McCammon

Even such an obvious idea as to observe an animal with vertigo or to rotate an animal did not occur to him, in spite…

— Robert Barany

“The motions of her mind were as incalculable as the flit of a bird in the branches”

— Edith Wharton

[Newton wrote to Halley ... that he would not give Hooke any credit] That, alas, is vanity. You find it in so many scientists.…

— Albert Einstein