Mary Livingstone Quotes

#1. In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.

Jami Attenberg

#2. (PORTRAIT: Adam and Adam in the Garden)

Jandy Nelson

#3. While it is all very well to distinguish happiness that is transient from that which is lasting, between ephemeral and genuine happiness, the only happiness it is meaningful to speak of when a person is dying from thirst is access to water.

Dalai Lama

#4. There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

Kevin Ashton

#5. That's the problem. We let people say stuff, and they say it so much that it becomes okay to them and normal for us. What's the point of having a voice if you're gonna be silent in those moments you shouldn't be? "Maya?

Angie Thomas

#6. Science needs the light of free expression to flourish. It depends on the fearless questioning of authority, and the open exchange of ideas.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. At the same time, his past lay before him like a corpse waiting to be embalmed.

Edward St. Aubyn

#8. Not yet. I don't know what I'm so happy about. But it doesn't matter whether Ma agrees or not. I can make my own decisions. I'm a person, the same as the rest of you.

Ba Jin

#9. What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

Arthur Frommer

#10. There is a (slight) chance that I might be going to hell.

Laurie Notaro

#11. If people want to see Beaux-Arts, it's fine with me. I'm interested in good architecture as anybody else.

Louis Kahn

#12. We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

John F. Kennedy