"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."
Abraham Lincoln
"It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus."
Erin Bow
"I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people."
Elon Musk
"Maybe I should have got some chili-slaw dogs from Shorty’s. Everybody loves those.” “Buddy,” Lars said, dropping his shoes to the deck with a thump, “sit yourself down and stop fussing. You’re reminding me of my Aunt Glynna with all this temperature takin’ and foil tuckin’. This food is fine."
Mary Jane Hathaway
"You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat."
Kelli Jae Baeli
"How Horrid' has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing."
Alison Bechdel
"Did my good deed for the day. Still not close to heaven, but it's something."
Anonymous
"People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains."
Paolo Giordano
"No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life."
W. E. B. Du Bois
"Only memories have a future."
Ljupka Cvetanova
"She dove, plunging fully beneath the surface and came up again in tears. Rivulets ran from her face, and the sun ignited them each, transforming them, even amid her sorrow, into gilded runnels set with a diamond shine."
A.S. Peterson
"There is one clear urgency in your life that you must never neglect, and that is — you must be yourself."
Bryant McGill
"I was always getting told off by my choir teacher for, you know, riffing when I shouldn't."
Rita Ora
"Don't be ridiculous. Brussels sprouts are awful. Jail is just jail."
Mora Early
"I don't know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
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