Crownie League Quotes

#1. When my reputation was at its height, classmates insulted me right to my face as I walked down the hall. When a teacher called on me, boys snickered and girls rolled their eyes. My body and face burned. I felt mortified. I contemplated suicide.

Leora Tanenbaum

#2. I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Helen Keller

#3. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.

John F. Kennedy

#4. She was a natural blonde, with delicate hands and feet, and in her youthful photographs one saw a girl with mocking eyes and a tragic smile, the course of whose life would conspire in time to transpose that pair of adjectives.

Michael Chabon

#5. The others were a little surprised when Piper came back on a pegasus with two unconscious demigods.

Rick Riordan

#6. But, in reality, we're all dying. We should remind ourselves of that on a daily basis, appreciate we're still around and try to squeeze as much as possible into what's left.

Steven Primrose-Smith

#7. Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet.

Robert Ballard

#8. Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life.

Mahatma Gandhi

#9. It's creepy to see fan sites about me.

Frances Bean Cobain

#10. Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?

T. S. Eliot