Bapaume 1917 Quotes

#1. For the scientists, they're kind of puzzled and pleased that somebody finds their work interesting. It makes it fun for me. I feel like I've sort of turned over a stone that hasn't been turned over.

Mary Roach

#2. So now do you see why books are hated and feared? They show the pores in the face of life. The comfortable people want only wax moon faces, poreless, hairless, expressionless.

Ray Bradbury

#3. It is hard to create community when the sheer number of options generate a system in which no one is in the same place at the same time.

Rebekah Nathan

#4. The study of law is sublime, and its practice vulgar.

Oscar Wilde

#5. If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.

Martin Luther

#6. My favorite moment of the whole thing was when John Belushi suggested that I get a hold of all the blues records I could so I could research the music.

Steve Cropper

#7. Obama was elected on a slogan of hope and change because both were in short supply: the military exhausted by two wars, the banks failing their public trust, the U.S. Congress a comedy of dysfunction, and a federal government that seemed designed to idle on the sidelines.

Nancy Gibbs

#8. Religion in its true sense is the most joyous thing the human soul can know, and when the real religion is realized, we will find it to be an agent of peace, of joy, and of happiness, and never an agent of gloomy, long-faced sadness.

Ralph Waldo Trine

#9. When Johnny Depp saw it, he was so excited he fluffed up to twice his normal size.

Diane Messidoro

#10. Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen.

Jessica Valenti

#11. Don't look for comfortable plays. Look for strong plays. Have balls.

R. Dobias

#12. In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

Dana Gioia