Page 292 Quotes

#1. To know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the universe. from Pavilion of Women page 292

Pearl S. Buck

#2. I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.

Dambisa Moyo

#3. The human race is divided into two sharply differentiated and mutually antagonistic classes: a smal l minority that plays with ideas and is capable of taking them in, and a vast majority that finds them painful, and is thus arrayed against them, and against all who have traffic with them.

H.L. Mencken

#4. But it doesn't say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that's just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It's impossible for animals to fall in love. And yet-

John Green

#5. My main task as an artist is to show you either what you have never seen before
or to show you what you have seen countless times, in a way you've never seen it.

Mike Duron

#6. I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science ... it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.

Marie Curie

#7. Killing more people won't help matters.

Jeannette Rankin

#8. For a comedian to kind of catch onto something right as something's catching on in our culture, a lot of it is luck, and you hope the joke is funny.

Jim Gaffigan

#9. A wise man sings his joy in the closet of his heart.

Tibullus

#10. If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.

Umberto Eco

#11. Tommen looked back to Ser Kevan. "Can I seal them now, Great-Uncle?" Pressing his royal seal into the hot wax was his favorite part of being king, so far.

George R R Martin

#12. All profound truths startle you in the first announcement.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#13. Sure, I'm skinny,' he said as they hurried back through the stables, 'but I stay drier in the rain.'
'How?'
'Less falls on me.

Leigh Bardugo