Certera Rae Quotes

#1. I really, really like you, Sky. But if I don't stop now, your dad will kill me and that will be the end of a beautiful friendship.

Joss Stirling

#2. But then if I'm being honest, most happy-sounding things probably wouldn't suit him. He could be riding the Matterhorn at Disneyland while eating ten tubs of gingerbread ice cream and still seem as fierce and angry as fuck.

Charlotte Stein

#3. Architecture is an imposed art in some ways, imposed upon the public, so people must be sure about what you're doing. You have to be sure about what you're doing.

Renzo Piano

#4. And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

George J. Mitchell

#5. I can't feel Irish to save my soul, but it's a fact.

Alex Haley

#6. Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

Geraldine Brooks

#7. I could still walk the street. I don't have to have no massive security.

Doug E. Fresh

#8. This is the paradox for me: in failure alone is there any possibility of success. I don't think I'm alone in this - nor do I think it's an attitude that only prevails among people whose work is obviously 'creative'.

Will Self

#9. A grandmaster needs to retain thousands of games in his head, for games are to him what the words of their mother tongue are to ordinary people, or notes or scores to musicians..

Garry Kasparov

#10. Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

#11. Because, sir, the way I look at it is that we are all drawing on to the bottom of the hill, whatever age we are, on account of time never standing still for a single moment. So let us always do a kindness, and be over-rejoiced. To be sure!

Charles Dickens

#12. In an entirely causal universe, what a person thinks is dictated before that person even exists.

'Trick Slattery

#13. Beppu (n.)
The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.

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