Old Devonshire Sayings

#1. The first American ancestor of our name was a younger son of these old Devonshire people, and came to the Virginia colony in the reign of Charles the First.

John Sergeant Wise

#2. Women are a sisterhood. They make common cause in behalf of the sex; and, indeed, this is natural enough, when we consider the vast power that the law gives us over them.

William Cobbett

#3. Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.

Siri Hustvedt

#4. What did I think of Princeton? Well, the answer to that question requires a story. When I first arrived, I looked around me at the Gothic buildings - younger, I later learned, than many of the mosques of this city, but made through acid treatment and ingenious stone-masonry to look older ...

Mohsin Hamid

#5. The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy.

Mark Spitz

#6. I think once everything is in place, once you've kind of wrapped your head around the story and the character, it's very liberating and you can start doing things like you would do.

Michiel Huisman

#7. Richard Burton had a tremendous passion for the English language, especially the spoken and written word

Frank Bough

#8. You can't make cheese from rats ... It's hard enough just milking the little beggars.

Arthur M. Jolly

#9. I was always complaining that there weren't enough good people going into public service, so I figured I had to get behind someone I found so compelling.

Mona Sutphen

#10. The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

Horace Bushnell

#11. How could anyone be so stupid as to trust a trader? The best thing I could do was pretend to others at Salomon that I had meant to screw the customer. People would respect that. That was called jamming. I had just jammed bonds, albeit unknowingly, for the first time. I had lost my innocence.

Michael Lewis

#12. I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Haruki Murakami

#13. I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

Joseph O'Neill