But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.

I did make some not-so-great relationship decisions when I was a lot younger. I do know that not all high school boys are great and wonderful and Prince Charming, and there are a few that are going to treat you that way.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.

John Charles Polanyi

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Robert Sternberg

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Ellen Glasgow, Letters of Ellen

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

We are to be shut out from men, and shut in with God.

Andrew Murray

I love recording music.

J. J. Abrams

I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy, Mr. Roper, it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation. -said by Katherine Darnell in Chasing Shakespeares, by Sarah Smith

Sarah Smith

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

Ayelet Waldman

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.

Fernando Pessoa

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Sam Ewing

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

Evel Knievel