7and7 Quotes

#1. It's amazing to me that we humans have the intellectual capacity to ask deep questions and to devise methods for learning how the universe works and how its contents evolve with time.

Alex Filippenko

#2. There has been a rising tide of criticism about China's treatment of foreign companies.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#3. It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.

Henry Miller

#4. I'm for the freedom of expression, given that it will be under strict control.

Alan Bennett

#5. I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.

James Thurber

#6. Shiva! The Mahadev. The God of Gods. Destroyer of Evil. Passionate lover. Fierce warrior. Consummate dancer. Charismatic leader. All-powerful, yet incorruptible. A quick wit, accompanied by an equally quick and fearsome temper.

Amish Tripathi

#7. Education is thinking, and thinking is looking for yourself and seeing what's there, not what you got told was there.

William Least Heat-Moon

#8. When I'm acting, I like to think of myself as a non-actor, and a non-drummer when I'm drumming. It frees you up to not care how well you do.

Trevor St. John

#9. Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like Ben Hecht and William Goldman, and journalists/columnists like H.L. Mencken, Mike Royko and Molly Ivins.

John Scalzi

#10. Never fear spoiling children by making them too happy. Happiness is the atmosphere in which all good affections grow

Thomas Bray

#11. Sound is the hard currency; meaning is the network of cultural and formal conventions that turns it into a stick of gum at the
candy store.

Randy Allen Harris

#12. By the streets of 'by and by,' one arrives at the house of 'never'.

Miguel De Cervantes

#13. To anyone that ever told you you're no good.. they're no better.

Hayley Williams

#14. Does he feel my request is unreasonable? ("Why does my mother bug me to wash behind my ears? Nobody looks there.")

Adele Faber