Alexandra Wentworth Quotes

#1. Flowers for Algernon again? she asks. Doesn't that book always make you cry?
One day it won't, I say. I want to be sure to be reading it on that day.

Nicola Yoon

#2. I love Oprah to death.

Alexandra Wentworth

#3. What chemists took from Dalton was not new experimental laws but a new way of practicing chemistry (he himself called it the 'new system of chemical philosophy'), and this proved so rapidly fruitful that only a few of the older chemists in France and Britain were able to resist it.

Thomas Kuhn

#4. You try to get the most out of the talent. Make 'em work and let 'em play.

Don Shula

#5. Backlash, actually, by Susan Faludi,

Helen Fielding

#6. Thank God for small movies and filmmakers who can make movies for not $8 million. Thank God for $8,000 movies.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

#7. Were genuine aliens to find us ... the chances were fairly good they would appear in a form beyond reckoning, shaped by the requirements of their environment. It was only for the convenience of the costume department of Star Trek that people believed in humanoid aliens.

Thomm Quackenbush

#8. I grew up in that world of power and politics in Washington, but when you grow up around it, you are completely unfazed by it.

Alexandra Wentworth

#9. He tried to scrub children's vomit from the webbing of the Tongue in a way that suggested deep reservoirs of genius.

Karen Russell

#10. I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them.

Alexandra Wentworth

#11. Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help.

Mahatma Gandhi

#12. We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Madeleine L'Engle

#13. I would never send my kids to a single-sex school.

Alexandra Wentworth

#14. My momma always said, 'You and Elvis are pretty good, but y'all ain't no Chuck Berry.

Jerry Lee Lewis

#15. I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

Alexandra Wentworth

#16. North Lawndale's Jewish People's Institute actively encouraged blacks to move into the neighborhood, seeking to make it a 'pilot community for interracial living.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#17. It's better than the Green Line," Galvin said with a

Joseph Finder