Magnifies Specimen Quotes

#1. As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.

Dana Priest

#2. People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Max Hastings

#3. Is one human? Or merely alive? Like a blade of grass equal to all existance in the moment it is torn? Yes. If pain is fundament, then a blade of grass can know all there is.

Norman Mailer

#4. I would bring down the sky, if it meant I was able to stay with you
always.

Victoria Escobar

#5. Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

Fujiwara No Teika

#6. I try to make sure I have a helpful perspective so when emotional pain comes up, it doesn't get out of hand.

Richard Brancatisano

#7. Panic bloomed in her mind and she seized it as a tool, compressing it to an edge with which to cut through her frightened immobility.

Stephen King

#8. He wished he was doing much more than kissing the back of her silky hand, though throwing her on the bar and devouring her like a man-eater wasn't a wise option.
But ... he was only human.

Ophelia London

#9. I kind of love going to weddings - it's a guilty pleasure. I've never been the wedding-y type girl dreaming about the big day, the dress, but I always cry. Always. Even if I don't know the bride that well, I'm verklempt!

Alison Brie