10institute Quotes

#1. Invite the best and brightest to compete for a grand prize to come up with designs, including new zoning, building codes and so forth, for New Orleans that could make it safe from water, and let the state and city pick the plan that works best for Louisiana.

Billy Tauzin

#2. Don't get me wrong, I'm going to play the young role as long as I can because once that ship has sailed, there's no getting back on it.

Alexa Vega

#3. There is, after all, no pleasure like that given by a woman who really wants to see you.

Anthony Powell

#4. I think the liberals are going to try to blame - and they already are - this entire mess on the right and on President [George W.] Bush. I think Republicans dropped the ball on actually articulating why we got into this economic mess, but it's not too late.

Andrea Tantaros

#5. Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by our side.

Adolf Loos

#6. Even the jukebox plays nothing but oldies, mostly

James Patterson

#7. The value of the old liberal education was not that it made men "well-rounded," like a ball bearing, but that it gave them the freedom of the height and breadth and depth of human experience, including man's mysterious encounter with his Creator. To

Anthony Esolen

#8. There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you're right.

Marc Andreessen

#9. It is much better to learn the elements of geology, of botany, or ornithology and astronomy by word of mouth from a companion than dully from a book.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. Was that how he'd died, she wondered, among dreams, crushed by the only ikon in the house?

Thomas Pynchon

#11. Be able to recognize the dangerous snakes, spiders, insects, and plants that live in your area of the country.

Marilyn Vos Savant

#12. I'd met some awfully tough gals in my life, and I find them compelling, if I don't have to socialize with them too much.

Daniel Woodrell

#13. Dogs are not people dressed up in fur coats, and to deny them their nature is to do them great harm.

Jeanne Schinto

#14. This City is what it is because are citizens are what they are " -Plato

Red Wemette

#15. they would soon be old enough to read The Railway Children by Edith Nesbit and Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome, and eventually Iris Murdoch and Alan Bennett. They could all be readers, and maybe even uncommon ones.

Will Schwalbe