Pittsburgher 100 Quotes

#1. My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

Joni Mitchell

#2. In my mind, I see all of my passionate memories in bright, burning Red.

Taylor Swift

#3. As you gain more discipline over your body, you will find that a corollary discipline will develop in the mind because the two really go together.

Frederick Lenz

#4. The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.

Gary Larson

#5. May you find new strength to accomplish your daily work.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#6. I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work.

Junot Diaz

#7. Pg 619 If he had been left to choose rather than forced to learn

Hanya Yanagihara

#8. Egypt now is a real civil state. It is not theocratic, it is not military. It is democratic, free, constitutional, lawful and modern.

Mohammed Morsi

#9. I doubt whether there would be many readers for a post-holocaust novel that was concerned with the hero's desperate search for a mite. But alas for the world if the mites and their diminutive allies failed to prosper!

Richard Fortey

#10. Some quick advice for success in life: Don't be afraid, be amazing.

Cuthbert Soup

#11. Our archives are treasure troves - a testament to many lives lived and the complexity of the way we move forward. They contain clues to the real concerns of day-to-day life that bring the past alive.

Sara Sheridan