Jottings Under Lamplight Quotes

#1. If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

Aaron Gwin

#2. Well for me, courage means having the courage to walk off the edge of what is known, with complete faith that you're not going to go crashing to the bottom. Stepping outside of your own self-perceived boundaries and limitations.

Brad Willis

#3. There can be no compromise on the right of personal security; there can be no compromise on securing of human rights.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#4. If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.

William Shakespeare

#5. Let me be kind and loving today because tomorrow is far far away.

Debasish Mridha

#6. The nature of the cosmos is such that whatever vision you have about yourself and the world will become reality. As soon as you awaken to the power you have, you begin to flex the muscles of your courage.

Alberto Villoldo

#7. Bitch, on that world, was what men called women they were extremely fond of or extremely displeased with when the woman was not there.

Samuel R. Delany

#8. My dad dragged me to a Bruce Springsteen concert as a kid. It was my first concert, but I fell asleep in the middle. My second concert was Weezer on the 'Pinkerton' tour, and 'Pinkerton' is the reason why I'm doing this.

Nate Ruess

#9. You know I say just what I think, and nothing more and less. I cannot say one thing and mean another.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#10. It does not astonish me that the critics in London relegate me to the lowest rank. Alas! I fear that they are only too justified!

Camille Pissarro

#11. The errors could have been avoided by mentally moving the who or whom back into the gap and sounding out the sentence (or, if your intuitions about who and whom are squishy, inserting he or him in the gap instead).

Steven Pinker

#12. Just because I was at an anti-police brutality protest, doesn't mean I'm anti-police. We want justice, but stop shooting unarmed people.

Quentin Tarantino

#13. Life turned out much better than I thought. I knew after a little while that I could act.

Peter O'Toole

#14. Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.

Madeleine L'Engle