Marcet's Quotes

#1. No one at this time can duly estimate the importance of Mrs Marcet's scientific works.

Mary Somerville

#2. Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.

Irwin Shaw

#3. *** You know that place in between nightmares and dreams? The place where tomorrows never come and yesterdays don't hurt anymore? The place where your heart beats in sync with mine? The place where time doesn't exist, and it's easy to breathe? I want to live there with you.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#4. For we live by faith, not by sight."

2 Corinthians 5:7

Anonymous

#5. Art, their father had frequently told them, was exactly that: to make art is the realize another's sadness within, realize the hidden sadness in other people's lives, to feel with and for a stranger.

Marianne Wiggins

#6. Fanaticism is just one step away from barbarism.

Denis Diderot

#7. I like walking. Each step is a thought without words, a thought without words is a thought without blame, without retribution, without consequence.

Kate Griffin

#8. When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.

Michael Faraday

#9. She absolutely declined to be puzzled; she turned her eyes to the flame of the candle as if the question were as irrelevant, or at any rate as impersonal, as Mrs. Marcet or nine-times-nine.

Henry James

#10. It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

Louis C.K.

#11. Truth; that long clean clear simple undeniable unchallengeable straight and shining line, on one side of which black is black and on the other white is white, has now become an angle, a point of view.

William Faulkner

#12. I wouldn't mind politicians lying to me, stealing from me, or senselessly making life difficult if they didn't try to claim they were looking out for my best interest. How refreshing it'd be to see a politician honest enough to admit he's dishonest.

Jarod Kintz