History is the sum total of the things that could have been avoided.

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

H. L. Mencken

Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.

Martha Graham

Love has different shades. Like the way I loved Cassia when I thought she'd never love me. The way I loved her on the Hill. The way I love her now that she came into the canyon for me. It's different. Deeper. I thought I loved her and wanted her before, but as we walk through the canyon together I realize this could be more than a new shade. A whole new color.

Ally Condie

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Mark Twain

If a person loves only one other person and is indifferent to all others, his love is not love but a symbiotic attachment, or an enlarged egotism.

Erich Fromm

The increased global linkages promote economic growth in the world through two key mechanisms: the division of labor and the international spillovers of knowledge.

Toshihiko Fukui

Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

Adam Brody

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Maeterlinck

This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.

Andrew Bogut

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

Al-Waleed bin Talal

...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.

Anne Lamott

Thinking that it was time to bring down the Monarch from his raptures to the level of common sense, I determined to endeavour to open up to him some glimpses of the truth, that is to say of the nature of things in Flatland.

Edwin Abbott Abbott