Take young researchers, put them together in virtual seclusion, give them an unprecedented degree of freedom and turn up the pressure by fostering competitiveness.

Quality afterschool programs provide safe, engaging and fun learning experiences to help children and youth develop their social, emotional, physical, cultural and academic skills.

Debbie Stabenow

Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in this life.

Jean Paul

It feels like he's taken your heart, doesn't it?....Like he's reached in and pulled it out from you. And I bet he smiles like he doesn't know, like he doesn't know he's holding your heart in his hand and you're from him.

Sarah Addison Allen

Said in answer to the question: What would you advise a person to do if that person felt a nervous breakdown coming on?

Karl Menninger

My advice to women in general: Even if you're doing a nine-to-five job, treat yourself like a boss. Not arrogant, but be sure of what you want - and don't allow people to run anything for you without your knowledge.

Nicki Minaj

The polls undoubtedly help to decide what people think, but their most important long-term influence may be on how people think. The interrogative process is very distinctly weighted against the asking of an intelligent question or the recording of a thoughtful answer.

Christopher Hitchens

Listen, in England people are already writing their memoirs at the age of 23.

Rupert Everett

We need a positive economic agenda that invests in the innovation and growth that will create jobs for middle class families and ensure that America remains the world leader.

Rick Larsen

The blessed work of helping the world forward, happily does not wait to be done by perfect men.

George Eliot

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection.

Oscar Wilde

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

Barbet Schroeder