Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

Bharati Mukherjee

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

Ted Nelson

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

George V. Higgins

Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.

George Eliot

The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.

Barry Commoner

I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...

Christina Rossetti

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Mark Twain

Know that there is so much more to you than your body. It's not just about perfecting the steps you must trust your instincts to tell deep, emotional stories through the steps that you are performing.

Karen Kain

If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.

Agatha Christie

I am just going outside and may be some time.

Lawrence Oates

In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau

The truth is lived, not taught.

Hermann Hesse