Macenstein Sandbox Quotes

#1. They'd stayed not because they wanted to be heroes, but because they chose to think of it as their job, and it was in front of them.

Terry Pratchett

#2. For a person whose sole burning ambition is to write - like myself - college is useless beyond the Sophomore year.

William Styron

#3. In my life as an architect, I found that the single thing which inhibits young professionals, new students most severely, is their acceptance of standards that are too low.

Christopher Alexander

#4. Every decision you make takes you one step closer to being wealthy ... or one step further away.

Shay Olivarria

#5. Don't ever pray for love and health, Mother said. Or money. If G-d hears what you really want he will not give it to you. Guaranteed. When my father left my mother said, get down on your knees and pray for spoons

Jennifer Clement

#6. I divide the world into three Classes - The few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, the overwhelming majority who have no notion of what happens.

Nicholas Murray Butler

#7. I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'

Saoirse Ronan

#8. He is a man who kicks at cats, said Solembum, as if that summed up Tenga's entire character.

Christopher Paolini

#9. Hanna Krall's book Shielding the Flame drew on the experience of Dr. Marek Edelman, who before he died in 2009 was the sole survivor of the five-person command that led the April 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Chris Hedges