Irish Sibling Sayings

#1. It was like falling in love - the things that get you are so small, the things that keep you up at night are so particular to you that when you try to explain, the only reward anyone can give you is a dumb polite nod.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#2. There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.

Joan Didion

#3. It was always a thrill for me, getting out of the cocoon and wandering. I'd let the wind wrap around me like fire and slip into the unknown with a moment's hesitation.

Corey Taylor

#4. Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.

William Mountford

#5. After being boxed in by man and his constructions in Europe and the East, the release into space is exhilarating. The horizon is a huge remote circle, and no hills intervene.

Jacques Barzun

#6. I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

Robertson Davies

#7. Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.

Abraham Lincoln

#8. When I say women are the agents of change, I really should say women and girls.

Jane Fonda

#9. There is an analogy between conservation and education reform. The coalition around education reform is the biggest bipartisan thing going in this state right now. We need to recapture the big bipartisan spirit for conservation.

Rob McKenna

#10. The question, then, is not "Is story telling science?" but "Can science learn to tell good stories?" (p. 50)

Irving Seidman

#11. That's the key to defending any quarterback: to make them throw before they want to throw.

Tony Dungy