Rough Quotations | Page 7

Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

I like being a woman, but I'm a little rough around the edges. I've been bungee jumping twice, but I was scared.

Modernism in Vienna brought together science and culture in a new way to create an Age of Insight that emphasized a more complex view of the human mind than had ever existed before.

A brain scan may reveal the neural signs of anxiety, but a Kokoschka painting, or a Schiele self-portrait, reveals what an anxiety state really feels like. Both perspectives are necessary if we are to fully grasp the nature of the mind, yet they are rarely brought together.

Furthermore, the spirit of enterprise which had its first intellectual development in England has especially flourished here as well as throughout all of Canada, while the same spirit has become less virile in the land of its origin.

We really feel that this was a case of a kid who is a hunter who accidentally brought them to school and leaned over and they fell out of his jacket. We took every precaution that we possibly could just in case that wasn't the case.

We're actually more in a deficit than we were at the height of the drought when the lake was at its lowest level back on Nov. 20.

We reach a point, roughly coming into Tuesday, where existing contingency plans have been completed.

We ran into some pitching troubles. This is our sixth game here and we're a little rough around the edges.

We're asking for voluntarily conservation of water and to not plant any new landscaping until the drought passes.