Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

James Green Somerville

Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer

Thomas Carlyle

You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!

William Shakespeare

They're very, uh, you know, I don't come from the suburbs and a jolly, Disney type of lifestyle. I come from something totally different. And they're cool and bare minimum so it's not always a money issue for me.

Shia LaBeouf

The test of a given phrase would be: Is it worthy to be immortal? To make a beeline for something. That's worthy of being immortal and is immortal in English idiom. I guess I'll split is not going to be immortal and is excludable, therefore excluded.

Robert Fitzgerald

People are naming it the Third Wave, the Information Age, etc. but I would say those are basically technological descriptions, and this next shift is not about technology - although obviously it will be influenced and in some cases expressed by technologies.

Paul Hawken

Ron's eyebrows rose so high that they were in danger of disappearing into his hair.

J.K. Rowling

Self-trust is the first secret of success.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My mother was a dominant force in my life. She had a very specific idea about education, which was: you should know everything about everything. It was quite simple. There was no exclusivity, and there really was no judgment.

Twyla Tharp

I love learning, and I think that curiosity is a wonderful gift.

Andie MacDowell

I was always the guy getting kicked out of my classes at school for having an attitude problem.

Chevy Chase

That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.

Thomas Jefferson