Pensum Quotes

#1. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept. To

Samuel Beckett

#2. The truth is that contraception saves lives, prevents unplanned pregnancies, improves outcomes for children and reduces the number of abortions.

Ann McLane Kuster

#3. When actors get a bad name for diva behavior - I've never seen it. Because my experience with people who are really famous actors is that they work really hard.

Hayley Atwell

#4. Believed in numbers. But doubt the nobility of the Truth.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#5. I imagine a future with no waste; material innovations have already become exponentially more vast, and I do think the future needs to be cradle to cradle. If designed properly, one product could be used for many years before needing to be recycled, or its components reused.

Yves Behar

#6. Genetic testing in the future is going to be seen as critical as testing your cholesterol.

Anne Wojcicki

#7. There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.

Elizabeth Peyton

#8. He was not trained in conservation - he was, after all, no more than an archaeologist - a digger!

Penelope Fitzgerald

#9. And I played music through the night, alone, echoing through the halls. My life, alive through note.

Jonathan P. Lamas

#10. Kaufman almost smiled at the perfection of its horror. He felt an offer of insanity tickling the base of his skull, tempting him into oblivion, promising a blank indifference to the world.

Clive Barker

#11. Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.

Sloane Crosley