Ported Box Quotes

#1. Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive.

Paulo Coelho

#2. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

Steve Volk

#3. Although some Jews "traveled by donkey," the Jews of Spain, for the most part, walked out of their country. These refugees were the "scholars, the sons and daughters of families who had served their monarchs . . . shoemakers, tanners, butchers, the old, the pregnant, [and] the young."6

Gloria Golden

#4. The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.

Alison Gopnik

#5. If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

Taylor Swift

#6. Women are cats ... and love to scratch even those they're fond of. Sometimes the more they love them the harder they scratch.

William John Locke

#7. In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.

Johannes Tauler

#8. I like contrasting between black and white and color.

Robert Barry

#9. Everyone loves a dead artist. It's the living ones that people can't tolerate.

Christopher Bollen

#10. Daffy bent down suddenly, and picked a small startled white flower. "Anemone," he said, handing it over; he made her repeat the word until she had it right. "Find me a silk to match that.

Emma Donoghue

#11. I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.

Mickey Sumner

#12. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

Tom Shadyac

#13. It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

Robin Gibb