Ardella Wade Quotes

#1. When I go to a library and I see the librarian at her desk reading, I'm afraid to interrupt her, even though she sits there specifically so that she may be interrupted, even though being interrupted for reasons like this by people like me is her very job.

Aaron Swartz

#2. After all, how can a society flourish, a country attain democracy and health, children grow into intelligent beings, sensitive to the needs of an ever more fragile and endangered planet, if half it's people are kept out of the driver's seat?

Alice Walker

#3. She finished just after him, scooping out fried corn and an okra-tomato-corn medley on his plate.

Alessandra Torre

#4. Gratitude is the beginning of civility, of decency and goodness, of a recognition that we cannot afford to be arrogant. We should walk with the knowledge that we will need help every step of the way.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#5. The world knows of a vast stock of epic material scattered up and down the nations; sometimes its artistic value is as extraordinary as its archaeological interest, but not always.

Lascelles Abercrombie

#6. Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them "funny-mentals". However, if you catch on early, before others believe, you might have valuable "surprise-a-mentals".

Ed Seykota

#7. Calcutta's the only city I know where you are actively encouraged to stop strangers at random for a quick chat.

Tahir Shah

#8. If everyone agreed to become vegetarian, leaving little or nothing for livestock, the present 1.4 billion hectares of arable land (3.5 billion acres) would support about 10 billion people,

E. O. Wilson

#9. He stepped on it. Squished it. Squashed it. Killed it. Cut it down in its prime. It kicked the bucket, turned up its toes, shuffled off this mortal coil. It was ... an ex-rabbit."
"He's a dangerous man, your father."
"The baby better learn to dodge.

Derek Landy

#10. A soul mate is not found. A soul mate is recognized.

Vironika Tugaleva

#11. Mind that is fast is sick, a mind that is slow is sound, and a mind that is still is divine. This is what the Bible means when it says, Be still and know that I am God.

Eknath Easwaran

#12. I loved teaching and I did a lot of work as a teacher's assistant in college, and my favorite experience was basically getting a laugh from a bunch of people because they had just understood something.

Joss Whedon

#13. It is over now, the ordeal of the Union. The great crimson gash in the nation's history.

LIFE Magazine

#14. There are things I'd wish weren't part of ageing. But what you gain is much more than you're giving up. I don't think you come into your own until you're 35 or so.

Cindy Crawford

#15. If you are truly fearless as a performer, than you don't fear kids or dogs.

Thomas Haden Church