Happy 9th Anniversary Quotes

#1. The novelist has more and more to say to readers who have less and less time to read: where to find the energy to engage a culture in crisis when the crisis consists in the impossibility of engaging with the culture?

Jonathan Franzen

#2. The aspirant has to be guided by a mentor. The stage at which this guidance can take effect is seldom, if ever, perceptible to the learner.

Idries Shah

#3. We must not build up ourselves at the expense of others.

Billy Graham

#4. She'd never felt more alone, even as hundreds of people walked by. No one recognized her, and she began to treasure her anonymity as a gift.

Jamie Ford

#5. The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. College: two hundred people reading the same book. An obvious mistake. Two hundred people can read two hundred books.

John Cage

#7. As for discipline and rules, I confess, I've never been good with either.

Sylvia Day

#8. Only a poet can translate for the dead.

Marty Rubin

#9. Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.

Charles Hodge

#10. I think the people here in New York appreciated what I brought to the table, and they showed it when I retired by the way they came out and supported me, and it meant a lot to me. It made me feel like I am a part of this city, and I will remain a part of this city.

Patrick Ewing

#11. The growing child must not be treated by those rigid rules of criminal procedure which confessedly fail to prevent offenses on the part of adults or cure adult offenders.

Julia Lathrop

#12. The computer may be incompetent in itself
that is, unable to do the work for which it was designed. This kind of incompetence can never be eliminated, because the Peter Principle applies in the plants where computers are designed and manufactured.

Laurence J. Peter