Eruditorum Quotes

#1. Therefore, I have attacted [the problem of the catenary] which I had hitherto not attempted, and with my key [the differential calculus] happily opened its secret.
Acta eruditorum

Gottfried Leibniz

#2. The cottage garden; most for use designed, Yet not of beauty destitute.

Charlotte Smith

#3. Fiction is a lie that is told in the service of truth.

Tim O'Brien

#4. It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

Ines De La Fressange

#5. He could hear rain pattering on the thatch, like a million mice line-dancing.

Tom Holt

#6. Strategic spiritual warfare is war in the spirit with your spiritual man to address the physical problem

Ikechukwu Joseph

#7. Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.

Felicia Day

#8. When father uses the word 'politics' he's talking
about relations between nations. When I use the word, though, I'm
talking about the various subtle ways a woman can get men to do
what she wants them to do.

David Eddings

#9. Opportunities? I make opportunities.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. The school system has become a part of this huge government machine, governed by people who aren't close to the situation. That's why I'm a Republican. I believe in small government.

Stacey Dash

#11. I bring the petals to my nose and breathe deeply. "Where did it come from?"
Seth smiles. "A garden."
"A garden?" I repeat, raising an eyebrow.
He laughs.
"You think you're so clever," I mutter. "It must be nice, conjuring up whatever you want whenever you want it."
"It has it's perks.

Katie Klein

#12. Some think that people come to a ball to do nothing but dance;
whereas everyone knows that the real business of a ball
is to look out for a wife,
to look after a wife,
or to look after someone else's wife ...

Robert Smith Surtees

#13. Memory depends on the medium, I thought; brains are such imperfect recorders. I

Mahvesh Murad

#14. Feelings such as loneliness, longing or love are sometimes hard to put into words; maybe that's why we all love music, because it resonates with something we can't share.

Agnes Obel