Interludes And Examinations Quotes

#1. Love was life's hardest school of all.
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Ivan Goncharov

#2. Her freckles were delectable. Most fellows didn't care for freckles as a rule, thinking they were tough-looking. But Betty's were appealing. Like cake batter you could wipe off with your thumb, buttery and sweet.

Katherine Howe

#3. Smell is the sense of memory and desire.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#4. There are no shortcuts. I approached practices the same way I approached games. You can't turn it on and off like a faucet. I couldn't dog it during practice and then, when I needed that extra push late in the game, expect it to be there. Very few people get anywhere by taking shortcuts.

Michael Jordan

#5. We must suffer fools gladly, otherwise how can we help them stop being fools?

Elan Mastai

#6. The Canadian graduate student was now hysterical.

Victoria Bruce

#7. I suppose no one truly admits the existence of another person.

Fernando Pessoa

#8. Tell me what to do to change your mind.

Lisa Desrochers

#9. Look at that! Life's more science-fictiony by the day. It's not just that you get old and your kids leave; it's that the world zooms away and leaves you hankering for whatever decade you felt most comfy in.

David Mitchell

#10. It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.

M.J. Rose

#11. Saturated fat is a fundamental building block for brain cells. It's certainly interesting to consider that one of the richest sources of saturated fat in nature is human breast milk.

David Perlmutter

#12. We hate the kindness which we understand.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. I do genuinely believe that the political system is not linear. When it reaches a tipping point fashioned by a critical mass of opinion, the slow pace of change we're used to will no longer be the norm. I see a lot of signs every day that we're moving closer and closer to that tipping point.

Al Gore