Bioclimatic Air Quotes

#1. Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.

Alain De Botton

#2. I played football in the ninth and 10th grade. I looked a lot like Joe Namath, so I think my looks got me there more than my abilities.

John Travolta

#3. Gabriel, the man she might have tied the knot with except that it was not meant to be. Putting memories to sleep, like putting an animal down.

Edna O'Brien

#4. Do you know? He says. I feel I've known you for years, not ninety minutes.

David Mitchell

#5. Men chase by night those they will not greet by day.

Camille Paglia

#6. Hang on to hope in any hardship.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#7. A harmonious design requires that nothing be added or taken away.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

#8. The measure of a country's greatness is its ability to retain compassion in times of crisis.

Thurgood Marshall

#9. Purchasing and downloading a book on to your e-reader won't necessarily protect it from disappearing.

Jonathan Zittrain

#10. Only 3 percent of people in the DRC use condoms.

Amy Lockwood

#11. Don't think of it as art, think of it as work.

Paddy Chayefsky

#12. I loved acting as a kid because I was kind of shy, so it brought me out of myself.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

#13. When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, "O Fortune!" said he, "for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief.

Plutarch

#14. As the government is, such will be the man.

Plato

#15. And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God ... must it be sane?

Lucien LaCroix