Alex Verus Quotes

#1. She was so intelligent that she could think herself into beauty. Intelligence ... they don't talk about it much, the poets, but when a woman is intelligent and passionate and good ...

Eva Ibbotson

#2. Oh, Atticus," it says soft, and the softness is scarier than the rest in its sorrow. "I'd have done anything you asked. I'd have been your sea and sky.

Leah Bobet

#3. In Einstein's theory of relativity the observer is a man who sets out in quest of truth armed with a measuring-rod. In quantum theory he sets out with a sieve.

Arthur Eddington

#4. But short films are not inferior, just different. I think the short gives a freedom to film-makers. What's appealing is that you don't have as much responsibility for storytelling and plot. They can be more like a portrait, or a poem.

Jane Campion

#5. My purist comedy friends accuse me of being a Jack of all trades and master of none.

Marcus Brigstocke

#6. My would-be assassin was a very good shot.

Benedict Jacka

#7. Has anybody ever told you you're a remarkably cynical person?"
"I like to think of it as learning from experience.

Benedict Jacka

#8. Teens' use of social media is significantly shaped by race and class, geography and cultural background [boyd, danah , "An Old Fogey's Analysis of a Teenager's View on Social Media," Medium, January 12, 2015].

Danah Boyd

#9. I wanted to grow something under my heart. I wanted to breathe, to eat, to blossom for someone else. Stephen

Jodi Picoult

#10. You're lucky you didn't know him back in his tech phase. There was this time in our second year when we were living in the same house. Kitchen table kept wobbling so Landis shoved this metal saucer under one of the legs. Wasn't until two weeks later we found out it was a land mine.

Benedict Jacka

#11. The death of a relationship. At least I was dressed for the wake.

Robyn Schneider

#12. As I walked, I started making a list of everyone in the mage world whom I'd opposed, fought with, or otherwise irritated. After I ran out of fingers to count on I decided to limit the number to people I'd pissed off relatively recently.

Benedict Jacka

#13. The noise makes your heart jump, but hearing a sniper bullet is a good thing. The bullet outruns the sound wave; if it's on target, it kills you before you ever hear the sound of the shot.

Benedict Jacka

#14. Congrats, you've just had your first assassination attempt.

Benedict Jacka