He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it

So the premise of 'The Submission' is that there's an anonymous competition to design a 9/11 memorial and it's won by an American Muslim, an architect born and raised in Virginia, and his name is Mohammad Khan.

Amy Waldman

She lives the poetry she cannot write.

Oscar Wilde

No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.

Thomas Carlyle

Whether a woman's running for office or she's supporting her husband who's running for office and she gets criticised for wearing open-toed shoes or for the colour of her coat, there's just a lot of history that you bear if you are a woman who puts herself out in the political arena.

Hillary Clinton

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another -- too often ending in the loss of both.

Tryon Edwards

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

William Penn

Nobel Prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw

Scotsmen are metaphisical and emotional, they are sceptical and mystical, they are romantic and ironic, they are cruel and tender, and full of mirth and despair.

William Dunbar

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.

Jane Austen

As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

Maurice Wilkes

When two people marry they become in the eyes of the law one person, and that one person is the husband!

Shana Alexander

Have an aim in life -- then don't forget to pull the trigger.

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