Lavinia Urban Quotes

#1. I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both.

Zoe Marriott

#2. In Egypt, on the eve of Tahrir Square, there was a major poll which found that overwhelmingly - 80-90%, numbers like that - Egyptians regarded the main threats they face as the U.S. and Israel. They don't like Iran - Arabs generally don't like Iran - but they didn't consider it a threat.

Noam Chomsky

#3. The central opposition between magic and science is the opposition between power and knowledge.

Jacob Bronowski

#4. Failure is a signpost on the trail to success

Phillip Gary Smith

#5. As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

George W. Bush

#6. The reason I started officially learning to cook was because when I first got pregnant, I had to face the sad fact that I didn't even know how to boil an egg.

Drew Barrymore

#7. I would have wanted my mom to see me settle down and to be a grandma to my kids.

Stephen Dorff

#8. For me the meaning of my work is much more fluid.

Thom Mayne

#9. Learning
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.

Czeslaw Milosz

#10. Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplest possible things are imaginary.

Paul Lockhart

#11. If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything.

Marva Collins

#12. Holy Mother Flip Whistle

Lavinia Urban