Mall Anniversary Quotes

#1. We [fiction writers] are much more of a maze than we are a motorway. Things are always in flux, they're always in movement, they're always twisting back on each other. I think the straight line is such a lie.

Jeanette Winterson

#2. Knowledge empowers people with our most powerful tool: the ability to think and decide. There is no power for change greater than a child discovering what he or she cares about. (Speech about Global Warming read on the National Mall for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, 2010)

Seymour Simon

#3. I count myself lucky, having long ago won a lottery paid to me in seven sunrises a week for life.

Robert Brault

#4. It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.

Toni Jerrman

#5. Never despise what you don't understand.

William Penn

#6. The sole purpose is to provide infinite springs, at which the soul may allay the eternal thirst TO KNOW which is forever unquenchable within it, since to quench it, would be to extinguish the soul's self ...

Edgar Allan Poe

#7. [This legendary Amazonian substance is] a cybernetic transdimentional medium of some sort that is generated out of the mysteries of the physiology of the human body.

Terence McKenna

#8. Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a
destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere
arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

Kenneth Turan

#9. Don't wait for a future moment; the time is NOW! The life of your dreams awaits ... UN-ASS the couch and go get it!

Steve Maraboli

#10. Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. I wouldn't be who I am if it wasn't for the mind-altering glimpse at the future in 'Star Wars.'

Kim Dotcom

#11. I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.

Talib Kweli

#12. Mysterious as it appears to be, true faith and suffering frequently go hand-in-hand.

Billy Graham

#13. If you only do what you know you can do- you never do very much.

Tom Krause