Defendants Representing Quotes

#1. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.

Diane Ackerman

#2. One of our daughters is now a physician; another is a vice president of a major entertainment company; and the third is a clinical therapist. They place no limits on their ambitions, but for them, those ambitions also have had to fit within the context of having children.

Tom Brokaw

#3. The Package is the Product, onomatopoeticized

Allen Ginsberg

#4. Sometimes you learn about the personality of your favorite artist, and you like their art a little less, because it doesn't jibe with what you had envisioned.

Paul Banks

#5. Didn't someone once say, 'A friend to kill time is a friend sublime'?"
"That was you who said that, no?"
"Sixth sense, sharp as ever. Right you are.

Haruki Murakami

#6. You have to dream big to get big.

Sherman Alexie

#7. But I also hold the very strong view that republicans need to lead by example.

Gerry Adams

#8. Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

Oscar Wilde

#9. Whoever had invented long division has a lot to answer for.

Joan Lingard

#10. Religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either by the ambition of a hierarchy, seeking control over every department of human conduct, or by the spirit of Puritanism.

John Stuart Mill

#11. Paige cleared her throat. "Hey, Taylor?"
"What?" she snapped.
"Um ... he ... maybe he can help us?"
"He doesn't seem very helpful," Taylor said grumpily.

Embee

#12. And Life is Colour and Warmth and Light and a striving evermore for these; and he is dead, who will not fight; and who dies fighting has increase.

Julian Grenfell

#13. Be content to seem what you really are.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. They were not permitted to so much as knock upon the door to the room in which he thought and wrote about art, but ted hadn't found a way to keep them from prowling outside it, ghostly feral creatures drinking from a pond at moonlight, their bare feet digging in the carpet ...

Jennifer Egan