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#1. The owner of the boom box marches over and turns the music down. He shrugs when he sees me staring. "Hey, noise pollution elicits fewer phone calls to the police than screaming and battle sounds. At least, that's the case in Berlin," he says.

Amy Plum

#2. Thither he bent his way, determined there
to rest at noon; and entered soon the shade
high roofed, and walks beneath, and alleys brown,
That opened in the midst a woody scene;
Nature's own work it seemed, Nature-taught Art

John Milton

#3. The pin was the smallest part of a pair of scissors, and the easiest made, but without it, the scissors cut no cloth.

Robert Jordan

#4. It is important to realize that our inability to answer a question says nothing about whether the question itself has an answer.

Sam Harris

#5. The store had a hand-painted sign the read: MOOSE PASS GAS. "That's just wrong," Frank said.

Rick Riordan

#6. Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless.

Les Stroud

#7. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help ... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

Barack Obama

#8. The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies; they're scripted.

Michael Mandelbaum

#9. Maxwell is serious, dedicated, awkward, forgetful, pompous to a certain degree, sentimental.

Don Adams

#10. Death is the only monastery; the tomb is the only cell, and the grave that adjoins the convent is the bitterest mock of its futility.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

#11. I had been riding horses before my memory kicked in, so my life with horses had no beginning. It simply appeared from the fog of infancy. I survived a difficult childhood by traveling on the backs of horses, and in adulthood the pattern didn't change.

Monty Roberts

#12. The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on.

William Shakespeare

#13. People don't do theology in a vacuum but in a community with other theological thinkers, where there's jealousy, vanity, hurt pride, all those things.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#14. Shipping by sea produces 1/60 the emissions of shipping by air and about 1/5 that of trucking.

Daniel Goleman