Judges Gown Quotes

#1. Doesn't anything matter to you?'
'Survival,' I said, but even that sounded untrue now. 'I guess.'
'That's not much.'
I painted a butterfly in Claire's room. Swallowtail. Another, cabbage white. 'I haven't gotten any farther than that.

Janet Fitch

#2. I never, ever, saw the evil Steve Jobs. He was always the most well-mannered and respectful guy I knew. And we got to be pretty good friends. He didn't suffer fools gladly. I guess he didn't think I was a fool.

Nolan Bushnell

#3. I've said it before about the Nobel Prize: it's like being struck by a more or less benign avalanche. It was unexpected, unlooked for, and extraordinary.

Seamus Heaney

#4. No," the mother told her. "It's too dangerous there".
A small incident, but when multiplied a hundred, a thousand times in a little girl's life, she learns that she's not as capable as a boy of handling life on the edge. She learns to hang back.

Sue Monk Kidd

#5. The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in the struggle for a just world.

Harvey Cox

#6. Mother Teresa's numerical results were not her greatest contribution. Instead, she made the world-and especially India-conscious of compassion.

Peter Drucker

#7. Transformations is the word. We can do the work of transformation only in the present moment

Nhat Hanh

#8. I'm interested in philosophical psychology, people like Nietzsche, Freud, Alcan, Foucault, Derrida.

Hanif Kureishi

#9. A locked-room problem lies at the heart of my new novel, 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone,' in which an RUC detective has to find out whether a publican's daughter who fell off a table in a bar that was locked from the inside was in fact murdered.

Adrian McKinty

#10. I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

Cody Johnson

#11. We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

R.C. Sproul

#12. The power of giving is beyond measure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. A reasonable probability is the only certainty.

E.W. Howe