"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."
Ray Bradbury
"Every time I've done something that doesn't feel right it's ended up not being right."
Mario Cuomo
"We were young, thoughtless - carried away with our own cleverness."
J.K. Rowling
"We need to abandon our scale and adopt God's because our misguided labels keep us from the right kind of interaction with people."
Judah Smith
"Many people, meeting Aziraphale for the first time, formed three impressions: that he was English, that he was intelligent, and that he was gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide."
Terry Pratchett
"I think when kids just see well-crafted poetry, it's just obtuse to them. It's hard to relate to."
Jewel
"I am just postmodern enough not to trust 'postmodern' as a description of our times, for it privileges the practices and intellectual formations of modernity. Calling this a postmodern age reproduces the modernist assumption that history must be policed by periods."
Stanley Hauerwas
"The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency."
Henry David Thoreau
"One fine day, in the middle of the night, two dead boys got up to fight. Back to back they faced each other. They pulled out their swords and shot one another. One deaf cop, on the beat heard the noise, and came and shot the two dead boys."
Holly Black
"To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation."
Anonymous
"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future."
Max Planck
"Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason."
Anonymous
"...It's appalling to remember that the entire Oxford University Library was sold for scrap in the mid-1500s. Nor was that situation unique to Oxford, as libraries were deconstructed throughout the land."
Owen Gingerich
"I always said I'm just an instrument; I'm transparent, like a medium, the language passes through me. Which is a bit like saying I'm a recording device, I start and I go. I had a real connection to ongoing, language production in real time."
Constance Dejong
"There are strategies to score or to be ahead but there is one strategy to learn which is curiosity."
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