Randerson Poll Quotes

#1. The man who discovers a new scientific truth has previously had to smash to atoms almost everything he had learnt, and arrives at the new truth with hands blood stained from the slaughter of a thousand platitudes.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

#2. History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

James Anderson

#3. I am a geek dad, believe me. I've got my iPad with me; I've got my iPhone 4; I've got my Xbox. I love technology and I want to feel like I'm living in the future, and these devices help me feel that way.

Dee Bradley Baker

#4. I wasn't in danger today," I tell him in a choked voice. "I escaped danger today." And I did... I feel like the whole day has been an electrical shock, paddles straight to my heart, bringing me out of a lifelong torpor I hadn't even known I was in. "I escaped," I repeat.

Gayle Forman

#5. The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical the ear, the more pleasant the melody. The more perfect the soul, the more joyous the joys of heaven, and the more glorious that glory.

Richard Baxter

#6. Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.

Charlotte Moss

#7. I am not somebody who believes everyone is equally talented; talent remains unequally distributed.

Clay Shirky

#8. I always like a charity with people who don't speak English because I get them to do all kinds of things around my house.

Joan Rivers

#9. There are ten parts of speech and they are all troublesome.

Mark Twain

#10. A real man would never abandon his family.

J.M. Darhower

#11. When I made my mother a DNR, I did not know it meant do not rescue.

Sheri Fink

#12. My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.

Samantha Shannon

#13. I'd walked away from 'Come Dancing' and gave 'Blankety Blank' the elbow when I felt the public had had enough. But I didn't follow my instinct to escape from 'Wogan,' and was persuaded to continue for another two years. I kind of regret that.

Terry Wogan

#14. See, Colie, it's all about understanding. We're all worth something.

Sarah Dessen