Sophronia Bourgeois Quotes

#1. Deciding to spit in the eye of every homely matron who ever warned her children not to stare into the sun directly, you crank the titanic telescope around to look directly towards the sun, the center of our solar system.

Daniel Keidl

#2. What we do for a living does not matter so much as how we do it. It is the spirit in which we do our work that counts, and that counts through all eternity.

Orison Swett Marden

#3. There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

William McFee

#4. Writing feels safer somehow. I can catch myself before I say the wrong thing.

Hillary Frank

#5. In the end, the best for which one could hope was to leave the world in better straits than existed on the day of your birth; to truly have lived. And oh, how Cannan, the Captain of the Guard, had lived.

Cayla Kluver

#6. I know labs where women refuse to make a coffee for others because they don't want to be seen doing seemingly female things. I think this is stupid. Why not make a coffee, bring a cake? I do it.

Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

#7. If you can't solve the puzzle, you're nothing but a loser. (Near)

Tsugumi Ohba

#8. I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,

John Kennedy Toole

#9. In a forum online I saw a thread about favourite smells. There was the usual stuff about fresh cut grass, babies, and whatever, but slowly a controversial contingent arose which named the smell of their own balls as their favourite aroma.

Drew Nellins Smith

#10. The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.

Richard Marx

#11. Terry Jackson, who is the Miami Herald's automotive writer and TV critic. That's correct: This man gets paid to drive new cars AND watch television. If he ever dies and goes to heaven, it's going to be a big let down.

Dave Barry