Christakis And Fowler Quotes

#1. I remember holding her in my arms and absolving God of meaninglessness.

E.L. Doctorow

#2. The ugly fact is books are made out of books, the novel depends for its life on the novels that have been written.

Cormac McCarthy

#3. Every day, three times per second, we produce the equivalent of the amount of data that the Library of Congress has in its entire print collection, right? But most of it is like cat videos on YouTube or 13-year-olds exchanging text messages about the next Twilight movie.

Nate Silver

#4. Sorry is the fool who ever underestimates my mother.

Kathryn Stockett

#5. Just because something is good is not a sufficient reason for doing it. The number of good things we can do far exceeds the time available to accomplish them. Some things are better than good, and these are the things that should command priority attention in our lives.

Dallin H. Oaks

#6. In translation you have to get it right, you have to be precise in what you're doing. You have to attempt what they did in that language - say, in Arabic - and try to accomplish a version of that in English, and you're constantly serving two masters.

Elliott Colla

#7. I prepare for the worst, but hope for the best.

Jackie Chan

#8. I was born in Russia in 1901 of Jewish parents and came to the United States in 1922 to join my father, who left Russia for the United States before World War I.

Simon Kuznets

#9. Ki energy acts as a bridge connecting body and soul. The Soul Delivers its messages to the body through ki energy.

Ilchi Lee

#10. No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

Knut Hamsun

#11. Utopia is impossible; everyone who isn't a utopian is a shmuck.

Cory Doctorow