All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.

Rosamond Lehman

Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.

John Berger

Nature is too thin a screen; the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

Dante Alighieri

Look to the past to help create the future. Look to science and to poetry. Combine innovation and interpretation. We need the best of both. And it is universities that best provide them.

Drew Gilpin Faust

He hugged her tight, mixing their tears to be bottled and fermented, so they could be drunk on each other when this was all over.

Pete Wentz

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Pauline Kael

Life is all about having a good time.

Miley Cyrus

In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

Will Rogers

While there is nothing wrong with physical desire per se, and wanting a partner who you consider to be physically attractive, you should also understand that if you are serious about finding that special someone and perhaps growing old with them, looks fade but character does not.

Stephen Richards

You know, when someone prefers their own brother over you, it isn't a confidence booster.

Cassandra Clare