Prodigiously Shrewd Quotes

#1. In every person's face, there is one place that seems to express them most accurately. With my grandmother, you always looked at her mouth.

Mona Simpson

#2. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Amar Bose

#3. The continuous capacity of genius to surpass understanding remains a human constant.

Denis Dutton

#4. The Web is now philosophical engineering. Physics and the Web are both about the relationship between the small and the large.

Tim Berners-Lee

#5. Why, in his life of frequent travel, had he never recognized the beauty of flight? The improbability of it. The sound of the engines faded, the airplane receding into blue until it was folded into silence and became a far-distant dot in the sky.

Emily St. John Mandel

#6. Stay on the right path. If what you want is meant to be, then it will be.

Deatri King-Bey

#7. What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

Andre Agassi

#8. Girls: I never wanted them all. Just all the ones I wanted.

Edward Abbey