I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

Sarah Orne Jewett

A sense of curiosity is nature's original school of education.

Smiley Blanton

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Ovid

As the strings of a lute are apart though they quiver the same music.

Kahlil Gibran

Sometimes the signs and signals of the non-language speaking world are not very clear. Then we have to walk in trust, move forward step by small step, until we are sure of the proper path.

Elaine Seiler

We understand nothing of the works of God unless we take it as a principle that He wishes to blind some and to enlighten others.

Blaise Pascal

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher, quoted

The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.

A. N. Wilson

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.

E. W. Howe

Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

Beth Ditto

I'll give anything for a good copy now, be it true or false, so it be news.

Ben Johnson