Henschen Torsion Quotes

#1. She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#2. Bankers all wanted to be princes. Professors all wanted to be Martin Luther.

Graham Moore

#3. I'm knackered now," he admits. "I think you're actually going to have to help me to the room."
I laugh. "Really, granddad? You rock stars should come with some sort of disclaimer, warning us that reality doesn't always live up to the pretty package.

Lily Morton

#4. I'm not saying that people have to listen to rock music. It's a great, cool thing and it can really be liberating for a lot of people but, hey, so can Charles Dickens so I'm not going to judge.

Frank Black

#5. It's much easier to make jokes about sensitive issues if there is some dissent, some conflict.

Mo Rocca

#6. Peace, though beloved of our Lord, is a cardinal virtue only if your neighbors share your conscience.

David Mitchell

#7. That's what my penis is like: a beautiful, thorny rose.

Dash Shaw

#8. Wherever a tension needed the solvent of good-will, or friction the oil of benevolence; wherever suspicion needed the antidote of frankness, or wounded pride the disinfectant of a hearty laugh - there Taft was sent.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#9. Democracy ... is never won but always to be won ...

Hallie Flanagan

#10. Don't understand? is, simply, work on the undesirable states of f(x). It is often easier to modify f(x) than to get better knowledge of x. (In other words, robustification rather than forecasting Black Swans.) Example: If I buy an insurance on

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#11. When you speak, always remember that God is one of your listeners.

Suzanne Woods Fisher