Pottle Street Quotes

#1. Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.

Yu Hua

#2. Meditation puts the telescope to the eye, and enables us to see Jesus after a better sort than we could have seen Him if we had lived in the days of His flesh.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#3. It is not what happens to me in life that defines how happy or sad I am but what I believe about it.

Bebhinn Ramsay

#4. Ambition, in one respect, is like a singer's voice; pitched at too high a key, it breaks and comes to nothing.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#5. People say it's cathartic to write a book, but it turned out to be quite painful!

Pattie Boyd

#6. There is a madness, yes, this is true. Few mortals possess it, the willingness to step away from the protection of sanity. To walk into the wild wood of madness ...

Neil Gaiman

#7. I would spar with the boys at school. This guy I had a crush on, we called him Spitfire
I gave him a bloody nose and lip, so needless to say the romance did not work out!

Ashley Greene

#8. In movies, I hope women aren't always portrayed as sex symbols. People like Drew Barrymore are paving the way for girls my age. Hopefully I can pave the way for young actresses, too.

Kirsten Dunst

#9. in BRCA-1 has a 50 to 80 percent chance of developing breast cancer in her lifetime (the gene also increases the risk for ovarian cancer), about three to five times the normal risk.

Siddhartha Mukherjee