Overstimulation And Anxiety Quotes

#1. The British Parliament, in its famed Longitude Act of 1714, set the highest bounty of all, naming a prize equal to a king's ransom (several million dollars in today's currency) for a "Practicable and Useful" means of determining longitude.

Dava Sobel

#2. But after all we are not children, not illiterate juvenile delinquents, not English public school boys who after a night of homosexual romps have to endure the paradox of reading the Ancients in expurgated versions.

Vladimir Nabokov

#3. The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

Cullen Hightower

#4. But understand that I want to remain alone, truly alone, so I can precede my face, my voice, my hell without anyone telling me which is the best path, without anyone laughing at the giant's wings and the dwarf's legs that impede my gait.

Abdellatif Laabi

#5. I've tried to tell a story. For me, it is the best one.

Amanda Lear

#6. I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

Florence Welch

#7. To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

John F. Kennedy