Illuminatory Quotes

#1. If there is a substantial difference between a gay couple and a childless heterosexual couple, I'm unable to see it.

Daniel Keys Moran

#2. If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

#3. When believers and unbelievers live in the same manner - I distrust the religion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. Just before I drop into a chair in my English classroom I pick up my phone and send Nolan a text.
"What if there's a day when I can't be there with my mom when she's at home?"
I don't even have to wait thirty seconds before he sends his reply:
"Then I'll be there

Paige McKenzie

#5. My dad wrote to me. My mum put him up to it because she got this great idea that hearing from someone I'd never met and who didn't give a fuck about me might cheer me up...

Helen Falconer

#6. I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.

Surya Das

#7. What makes some cognitive operations more demanding and effortful than others? What outcomes must we purchase in the currency of attention? What can System 2 do that System 1 cannot? We now have tentative answers to these questions.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Mary Augusta Ward