Spencer

Instead, I substitute a few quotes that I have collected throughout my academic career to compensate: "Speech is silver, and silence is golden." -Muriel Spark "Hunger is the best spice." -Spike, Cowboy Bebop "Hakuna Mutata." -The Lion King "Carpe Diem." -Dead Poet Society "Learn the rules in order to brake them properly." -Dalai Lama "Anyone can navigate a ship in a calm sea." -Bac Khoa "Even if the sun sets and a deep darkness shrouds the path, the moon will cast its rays regardless." -Kantai, Juuni Kokki "You may be very original, but there is no way of escaping influences." -Stanley Richards "Once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it." -John Updike "Work with the scraps you were given." -Anonymous "If you were given lemons, make lemonade." -The Apprentice "You waste life when you waste good food." "Don't let your wounded vanity get the upper hand of you." -Katherine Porter "Blue comes from the indigo plant but is bluer than the plant itself. Ice is made of water but is colder than water ever is." -Hsun Tzu "No people whose word for yesterday is the same as their word for tomorrow." -Salman Rushdie "It's difficult to disentangle cause from effect." -Martin Voracek"There was a beginning. There was a time before that beginning. And there was a time before the time which was before that beginning. There was being. There was non-being. There was a time before that non-being. And there was a time before the time that was before that non-being. Suddenly there is being and there is non-being, but I don't know which of being and non-being is really being or really non-being. I have just said something, but I don't know if what I have said really says something or says nothing." -Smullyan"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V." -"V" The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country." -Abraham Lincoln "You, no doubt, have natural abilities that you have nurtured and your gifts may be the very reason you strive as tirelessly as you do. Yet others see only the outcome of your efforts and not the efforts themselves." -DailyOM Journal