Sevres Plates Quotes

#1. Feminism is something you do. It's a verb. It's what you are. It's an activity; it's something you're actively engaged in.

Kathleen Hanna

#2. I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances. a

Martha Washington

#3. Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. "Immortality" may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.

G.H. Hardy

#4. People were so scared of telling the truth because the truth was chaotic and complicated and decidedly uncool, but uncool was the way I rolled. Or it would be if I used tired old phrases like 'That's the way I roll', which I so don't.

Sarra Manning

#5. We are made of starstuff.

Carl Sagan

#6. All I've undergone I will keep on.

Trent Reznor

#7. I'm fond of observing how obsession is the most durable form of intellectual capital.

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

#8. Like the pugilist," Gershwin said, "the songwriter must always keep in training.

Mason Currey

#9. You don't teach information in a writing workshop.

Tobias Wolff

#10. A steady heart calms the storm in mind.

Toba Beta

#11. On Sharing
I'm sorry, but if your brother doesn't want you to play with his shit, then you can't play with it. It's his shit. If he wants to be an asshole and not share, then that's his right. You always have the right to be an asshole - you just shouldn't use that right very often.

Justin Halpern

#12. If you wanted to design a robot that could learn as well as it possibly could, you might end up with something that looked a lot like a 3-year-old.

Alison Gopnik