Resumed Air Quotes

#1. I was probably 8 years old; my mom let me stay up one night. She's like, 'You have to see this movie.' It was 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' and it was on TV, and it was a big deal. And I saw Marlon Brando, and I was like, 'Oh, my God.' That's where it started.

Mark Ruffalo

#2. But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

Mary Wollstonecraft

#3. Girls are for dessert.

Fritz Leiber

#4. My vampire boss, who would like to maybe be my boyfriend, just dropped in to tell me he was running away because Morganville's too dangerous.

Rachel Caine

#5. On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.

Leslie Le Mon

#6. The Rapture: The ultimate Republican back-up plan.

Jon Stewart

#7. The wettest, weirdest environment is human interaction. Whatever we build gets misunderstood, corroded and chronic, and it happens quickly and in unpredictable ways. That's one reason why the web is so fascinating-it's a collision between the analytic world of code and wet world of people.

Seth Godin

#8. Feminism differs from reform of any kind, even franchise reform. Feminists, I should say, are not reformers at all, but ratherintellectual biologists and psychologists.

Rheta Childe Dorr

#9. She understood the specific kind of appreciation that comes to a person witnessing a thing of beauty alone, how the spectacle seems to sit whole inside the soul, undiminished by conversation, by any attempt at translation or persuasion.

Elizabeth Berg

#10. The interval allowed was only five minutes, at the end of which I resumed the lecture; but so refreshing was the effects of the brief rest and, above all, the admission of pure air, that during the second hour the attention was as completely sustained as during the first.

George Combe

#11. I sometimes wear headphones even though I'm not listening to anything just so I'm left alone. It's the next best thing to wearing a 'Do Not Disturb' sign.

Karl Pilkington

#12. I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

Paul Walker

#13. The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.

Mason Cooley

#14. When I experienced humiliation and yet kept walking, I understood that I was free to choose my destiny.

Paulo Coelho

#15. To involve young people and make sure that the system is more relevant to them in Scotland, we have a clear obligation to implement a policy of home rule.

Charles Kennedy

#16. Fiction allows us to both evade truth and to approach it - or, rather, it's fiction that allows us to 'construct' our world. It's haunted by the unimaginable and the unspeakable.

Joshua Oppenheimer