File Cards Quotes

#1. I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)

Adam Savage

#2. April showers bring May flowers

Chris Cleave

#3. The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.

Ezra Stiles

#4. It is difficult to discuss history, and more difficult to talk about now, today, even simple things.

Thabo Mbeki

#5. She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

H.D.

#6. Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas.

David Suzuki

#7. Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

Helen Clark

#8. Greenpeace protesters who lived on the trees right above the planned radar location (Google Maps) and who eat environmentally friendly roots, insect, excrements, and dirt.

Lubos Motl

#9. None on earth can love those who declare that they alone are the sons of God.

Pearl S. Buck

#10. Father emptied a card file for Margot and me and filled it with index cards that are blank on one side. This is to become our reading file, in which Margot and I are supposed to note down the books we've read, the author and the date.

Anne Frank

#11. Son, always answer back when you receive an insult. Do it straight away. Even if there's a chance there was nothing behind it, take back control, answer them back. An insult is an attack. You must counter.

Christos Tsiolkas

#12. Catholics are pretty good at keeping Jesus nailed to that cross, rather than focusing more on that happy bit where he rose from the dead and freed us from sin and evil.

Bonnie-Sue Hitchcock