Addalyn Antonucci Quotes

#1. Both faith and cynicism make judgment too easy.

Mason Cooley

#2. Most of the complexity of a human neuron is devoted to maintaining its life-support functions, not its information-processing capabilities. Ultimately, we will be able to port our mental processes to a more suitable computational substrate. Then our minds won't have to stay so small.

Ray Kurzweil

#3. 104.Give men enough time and they will turn on anyone.

Anne Rice

#4. We feel good when we hear about how powerful we are because we are pure power.

Vironika Tugaleva

#5. My maternal family are South African and when I was small and my parents separated my mother and I went back to South Africa. So for me the emergence of my own childhood consciousness was in the context of 1970s and 1980s apartheid South Africa and the movement there.

Rachel Holmes

#6. Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Don DeLillo

#7. Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. Modern Western culture has become a mixture of paganism and Christianity. We are a blend of both. We talk of God, but we often act as though we are atheists.

Billy Graham

#9. Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.

Emily Carr

#10. Garry Marshall is a joy. I feel so utterly safe in his hands.

Julie Andrews

#11. Once secrecy becomes sacrosanct, it invites abuse.

Mike Mansfield

#12. Kids are not physical creatures, and they're not stupid. They know all about violence and power and raw emotions. What's really scary is when adults pretend that such things don't exist."

(Grossman's review of The Hunger Games in "Time" magazine, Sept. 7, 2009)

Lev Grossman

#13. Some Aspergirls are happy alone and start to wonder if there's something wrong with them when society puts pressure on and asks "Aren't you lonely?" It's nobody's business what you do, and if you are happy being alone, you are not flawed, you are lucky.

Rudy Simone