Bifocal Book Quotes

#1. Many confuse understanding with believing.

Watchman Nee

#2. What really put me over the top was receiving a packet of hundreds of hand-written thank you notes, telling me how the kids were inspired and excited about the [Cube] project.

Scott Cohen

#3. Roger Federer certainly is my claim to be the best of all time - if there is such a thing. With Rafael Nadal not far behind,

Rod Laver

#4. Almost all of us have the hankering to be famous, to be important, to be admired, to stand out, but the assumption is you have to be different or better to get that. No. The best thing is to be famous, to be cuddled by the public, but to be like everyone else.

Tibor Fischer

#5. I should have known better than to take a job as an assistant to a psychic detective.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#6. I just think it's important to be direct and honest with people about why you're photographing them and what you're doing. After all, you are taking some of their soul.

Mary Ellen Mark

#7. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.

Albert Einstein

#8. We must make our choice. We may have democracy, or we may have wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.

Louis D. Brandeis

#9. By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

John Hodgman

#10. For students, understanding the separate and unique functions of each branch of government can help them understand how different kinds of government officials can help solve different kinds of problems.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#11. It is possible to take something beautiful and lasting out of the heart-wrenching experience of seeing the animal you love move inexorably toward death.

Jon Katz