Minard's Quotes

#1. Telescopes and bathyscapes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleonic war: the most exciting new frontier is charting what's already here.

Randall Munroe

#2. People don't want gadgets, they want services.

Jeff Bezos

#3. God's love does not distinguish between the infant in the mother's womb or the child or the youth or the adult or the older person. In each one God sees His image and likeness. Human life is a manifestation of God and His glory.

Pope Benedict XVI

#4. And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

Beth Henley

#5. I don't think the biggest threat to our theology is humanism or the host of world religions. Our biggest threat is cut-and-paste Christianity. If man places his faith in a god he has recreated in his own image, has he placed his faith in God at all? And if not, how can such a man be saved?

Beth Moore

#6. A brave man, a real fighter is not measured by how many times he falls, but how many times he stands up.

Rickson Gracie

#7. My records don't go platinum or gold. I think they go cedar.

Dave Sitek

#8. There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once.

James Joyce

#9. Our minds simply don't function in some sort of narrative chronology. I think that one of the great gifts of writing fiction is being able to think about that.

Dani Shapiro

#10. Be lovely and do no harm.

Louise Erdrich