Geffard Quotes

#1. Did you know," says Marie-Laure, "that the chance of being hit by lightning is one in one million? Dr. Geffard taught me that." "In one year or in one lifetime?" "I'm not sure." "You should have asked.

Anthony Doerr

#2. The murex Dr. Geffard keeps on his desk can entertain her for a half hour, the hollow spines, the ridged whorls, the deep entrance; it's a forest of spikes and caves and textures; it's a kingdom. Her

Anthony Doerr

#3. To really touch something, she is learning - the bark of a sycamore tree in the gardens; a pinned stag beetle in the Department of Etymology; the exquisitely polished interior of a scallop shell in Dr. Geffard's workshop - is to love it.

Anthony Doerr

#4. I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.

Nelson Mandela

#5. The trouble with life is that, unlike movies, it doesn't have background music. We never know how we're supposed to feel.

Lewis Gardner

#6. There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

Ivor Cutler

#7. Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.

Robert Breault

#8. The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

Mary Wollstonecraft

#9. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. I sure would like to get kissed.
How would that feel on my mouth,
How different would I be after,
a changed climate down in my insides?

Virginia Euwer Wolff

#11. I've always been pessimistic about China. I can't see China going on without economic or social issues.

Ronnie Chan

#12. Nothing is my guiltiest pleasure. I love it. I love doing it. I love planning to do it, I love loafing and pottering and chilling and daydreaming.

David Morrissey

#13. Is there any conflict between science and religion? There is no conflict in the mind of God, but often there is conflict in the minds of men.

Henry B. Eyring

#14. It was as if he had known her for a long, long time and before he knew her, he knew nothing because he felt he had not existed then, life had been absent in his breaths.

Faraaz Kazi

#15. Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Pope Leo I

#16. Hope is itself a species of happiness, and perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords.

Samuel Johnson

#17. The true Christian is in all countries a pilgrim and a stranger.

George Santayana