Perseverando Virginia Quotes

#1. Most often we call a person intelligent when they learn to conform to the societal norm. Are they wise?

Debasish Mridha

#2. The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.

Harriet Martineau

#3. Allen Carr saved my life.

Allen Carr

#4. The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.

Chris Matthews

#5. Look at the whole criminal correction game, which is a big piece of our economy. It's just an invention. Crime is being invented to put people to work.

Jerry Brown

#6. Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right

Aldous Huxley

#7. ... one of those dreadful boarding schools. It was down on the South Coast. I think some very unpleasant things happened there ... . So many lives were distorted by such cruelty. I know so many men who had to put up with that, so many ... .

Alexander McCall Smith

#8. Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

D.T. Suzuki

#9. Cancer is a demonic pregnancy.

Susan Sontag

#10. If you don't give trust to others, it's because you haven't earned it. If you don't have trust form others, it's because YOU haven't earned it.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#11. Or we can settle in and watch every single episode of Sherlock." "Now you're talking." Benedict Cumberbatch is my homeboy.

Autumn Doughton

#12. The director is responsible for interpreting the playwright's work through the cast with the help of the staff. It is the director's artistic concept of the play that the cast, staff, and crew work to obtain.

Laurence Sterne

#13. Belief gets in the way of learning.

Robert A. Heinlein

#14. I try to excite myself so I stay crazy.

Jenny Holzer

#15. Anybody I'm in a band with can do what they do better than me. I'm a huge believer that I can play bass or whatever I bring to the table - producing, songwriting, orchestrating - and I can look at the other guys and say, "He's got that, he's got this, and I have this." It's a team thing.

Nikki Sixx