We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say-and to feel-

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that oral teachers and sign teachers found it difficult to sit down in the same room without quarreling, and there was intolerance upon both sides. To say 'oral method' to a sign teacher was like waving a red flag in the face of a bull, and to say 'sign language' to an oralist aroused the deepest resentment.

Alexander Graham Bell

My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me.

Bobby Orr

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

Mencius (Mengzi Mengtse)

It isn't false modesty when I say this, but although I am supposed to be a famous person it doesn't mean anything to me. I just sit at home and work.

Gyorgy Legeti

The Arc of the Moral Universe Is Long, but It Bends Toward Justice

Martin Luther King Jr.

It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the world. Expecting more novelty than there is, more greatness than there is, and more strangeness than there is, we imagine ourselves masters of a plastic universe. But a world we can shape to our will is a shapeless world.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness;

George Eliot

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!

David G. Farragut, Battle of Mob

I will be sad. I've gotten very attached to Harry and all that goes on in his world, I guess I'll just be kind of tasting every bit of it because it will be the last one.

Mary Grandpre

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Laurence Sterne

I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life.

Jhonen Vasquez