Shomer Quotes

#1. Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, "How do I get my kids interested in science?" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#2. When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Leo Tolstoy

#3. The sex with Mandy was good, but it wasn't like warm apple pie.

Wilmer Valderrama

#4. Ambition was a dull pain, like a continually broken heart.

Enid Shomer

#5. What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

William Butler Yeats

#6. Flo hated how public an event affection inevitably became. Marrying in a church while scrutinized by dozens of people struck her as a barbaric custom.

Enid Shomer

#7. Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.

Benjamin Carson

#8. I think people love nature after they experience it. I know I experienced it as a young man - I took a lot of hikes, I was involved in scouting.

Ed Begley Jr.

#9. No trains. No traffic noise. At night, my mother's old bedroom was so dark I couldn't tell if I'd shut my eyes or not.

Susan Fletcher

#10. The fundamental imbalance that is behind all of the other social diseases is patriarchy.

Ani DiFranco

#11. Some are so Foolish as to interrupt and anticipate those that speak, instead of hearing and thinking before they answer; which is uncivil as well as silly.

Various

#12. The two of them, father and son, lived like roommates, stumbling upon each other in their matching peacock robes, bitching over who used up the coffee, but by afternoon they drifted in the pool together, bumping the sides, compatriots in the search for a little passion on earth. They

Jeffrey Eugenides

#13. I didn't always have 14,000 people wanting to hang out with me on a Saturday night.

Taylor Swift

#14. This is why you use imagery when writing about sex; it's a means both of evoking immediacy and of distilling emotion.

Diana Gabaldon