Laureate Key Quotes

#1. If either of them stops shouting long enough to hear the other, they'll be hurting each other's feelings.

Diana Gabaldon

#2. I have always felt that the first duty of a writer was to ascend - to make flights, carrying others along if you can manage it. To do this takes courage, even a certain conceit.

E.B. White

#3. Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates ... and yourself.

Bob Cox

#4. Dealing with these sexual disorders, you ask 'what is it supposed to look like?' 'what's the norm?' The norm is the heterosexual design of the body

Scott Lively

#5. I know how difficult it can be when the image you've had of something doesn't match its reality; when the friend beside you turns into a monster.

Jodi Picoult

#6. Death had tried fiery steeds and skeletal horses in the past, and found them impractical, especially the fiery ones, which tended to set light to their own bedding and stand in the middle of it looking embarrassed. Death

Terry Pratchett

#7. But I can't say that gratitude was my motive for infringing on the Law of Cultural Embargo. I was not paying my debt to him. Such debts remain owing. Estraven and I had simply arrived at the point where we shared whatever we had that was worth sharing.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#8. One can still say that quantum mechanics is the key to understanding magnetism. When one enters the first room with this key there are unexpected rooms beyond, but it is always the master key that unlocks each door.

John H. Van Vleck

#9. I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

Spalding Gray

#10. When you're in a situation that is foreign to you, you just have to pull yourself together and adapt.

Dasha Zhukova