Jem Carstair Quotes

#1. People and dogs and cows are born to be what they are. They may cover it up for a long time, but it will come out sooner or later.

Julia Peterkin

#2. Those who know the marvels of chess and wonder why this game of all games does not enjoy greater popularity may also ask why Pepsi-Cola is consumed by more people than Chateau Lafite, or the Beatles are more familiar than Beethoven.

Gregor Piatigorsky

#3. On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Every woman is wrong until she cries.

Oscar Wilde

#5. Arizona is the worst place to spend the summer - it's like 125 degrees - so my mom, my brother and I would go to the beach for two months to escape the heat.

Emma Stone

#6. I think the great sketch shows, like 'Python' and 'Mr. Show,' they didn't stick around for very long. There's something kind of cool about that.

Tim Heidecker

#7. I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

John Zorn

#8. All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

Studs Terkel

#9. Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#10. A model is a selectively simplified and consciously structured form of knowledge.

Eric Evans

#11. Charlotte shrugged. "In the end, greed makes the world go round," she proclaimed. "Although, revenge isn't very far behind either." She chuckled at her own joke.

Ada Adams

#12. The Earth - from our altitude at Hubble, we're 350 miles up. We can see the curvature. We can see the roundness of our home, our home planet. And it's the most magnificent thing I've ever seen. It's like looking into Heaven. It's paradise.

Michael J. Massimino

#13. It is a very strange thing, to be in love. It changes you.

Cassandra Clare