Gravesend Grammar Quotes

#1. I was born in Somerville, but I don't remember very much about it because we moved from there to Arlington when I was five years old, and it was in Arlington that I spent most of my childhood.

Alan Hovhaness

#2. Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.

Boris Pasternak

#3. There were many much more important problems to worry about.

Brandon Sanderson

#4. Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way.

Mike Greenberg

#5. sunbeams everywhere and mist floating like freshly minted

Haruki Murakami

#6. The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#7. I want my happiness! ... Many, many years have I waited for it! It is late! It is late! I want my happiness!

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#8. There's a moment when all would go smooth and even,
If only the dead could find out when
To come back, and be forgiven.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

#9. His was an illness that besets the intellectual: the indefatigable will to mastery. Chronic and incurable, it afflicts those who lust after a world that makes sense.

Siri Hustvedt

#10. Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

Samantha Harvey

#11. If I had a brontosaurus, I would name him Horace or Morris. But if suddenly one day he had A lot of little brontosauri- I would change his name to Laurie.

Shel Silverstein

#12. I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

Fiona Shaw