Our Favorite Quotes

so close and yet so far

has a sick relevance to what is up in my world these days

 

A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell.
C. S. Lewis

 

stephen hawking just wrote a book saying the universe can be explained without there being a god

 

what does hawking know about origami

 

the topology is infinitely foldable

 

I'm decidedly benevolent, especially when folks do as I tell them . . .

 

I can easily become accustomed to the very best

 

Tsk, Tsk, Par.

 

She's been telling me this for years Hoyt, so I thought I'd add it to the list . . .

 

How about:
"Tomorrow's trash is wrapped up in today's newspaper"

 

That's good.

 

I have two rules when it comes to boats:

1. You can't have too many boats
2. You can't have too many boats

Willallison

 

It mystifies my mind how the yanks put a man on the moon with the imperial system.

Wynand N

 

LOL had to download an application on my mobile for unit conversations ...
Just to keep up with the "other system"
everything is mind boggling alien !! Feet, pounds, gallons, inches blaah ......

 

Feet and inches is actually a very practical system of measurement for working with, when you're building something. Since a foot is 12 inches, it can be divided by two, three, four or six and still come up with whole inches.

And inches can be divided indefinitely: into halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, thirty-seconds, etc.

It's also handy sometimes to express a length or width strictly in inches instead of feet and inches, especially if you're going to be dividing it up or multiplying it.

I can see how it would drive you crazy if you weren't raised with it, though.