Nikolai Gavrilovich Chernyshevsky Quotes

#1. Children recognize me from Free Willy, and their parents recognize me from Reservoir Dogs. The kids are like, 'There's Glen,' and the parents are like, 'Don't go near that guy.'

Michael Madsen

#2. Every scientist is a descendant of Humboldt. We are all his family.

Emil Heinrich Du Bois-Reymond

#3. Sometimes, all you must do is reach out your hand for something wonderful to happen.

Anne Michaels

#4. A pattern of raised crisscrossed scars, some old and white, others more recent in various shades of pink and red. Exposing the stress of the structure underneath its paint

Amy Efaw

#5. If she were honest, weakness should be masked at all times. Any weakness could, and would be exploited.

Callie Hunter

#6. Life went on whether a person participated in it or not.

Lurlene McDaniel

#7. You can see why the common admonition to "act calm and kind regardless of how you feel" is very good advice: you are likely to be rewarded by actually feeling calm and kind.

Daniel Kahneman

#8. Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Rebecca Solnit

#9. I called her name into the fold between night and day.

Marie Howe