Staniforth Lecture Quotes

#1. A woman is human. She is not better, wiser, stronger, more intelligent, more creative, or more responsible than a man. Likewise, she is never less. Equality is a given. A woman is human.

Vera Nazarian

#2. I wondered if sometimes the difference between a psychopath in Broadmoor and a psychopath on Wall Street was the luck of being born into a stable, rich family.

Jon Ronson

#3. Sorry, sometimes when I try to rhyme I end up sounding like Yoda.

Penny Reid

#4. Right, I said, after an off-balance pause. A knocker, in the trade, was a shark who charmed his way into old people's homes: to cheat them of valuables

Donna Tartt

#5. The enemy of joy is not suffering, it is idolatry.

Matt Papa

#6. Enjoyment belongs to those who know things halfway.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#7. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

Jenny Han

#8. It is an error common to many to take the character of mankind from the worst and basest amongst them; whereas, as an excellent writer has observed, nothing should be esteemed as characteristical, of a species but what is to be found amongst the best and the most perfect individuals of that species.

Henry Fielding

#9. Pain lost it's power when other things became more important.Kahar didn't need a potion or an Aon to save him-he just needed something to do.-Brandon sanderson(Elantris)

Brandon Sanderson

#10. He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

Don DeLillo

#11. I really like romantic comedies and light movies and everything but I think - I don't know where it comes from - but when you're doing violent movies, you're closer to reality.

Vincent Cassel

#12. She knew enough to take a few steps back from the relationship when things got particularly combustive.

Shelly Branch

#13. A garden is a place for shaping a little world of your own according to your heart's desire.

Beverley Nichols

#14. The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

Angela Carter

#15. I don't try to kind of go for the overly sympathetic. I don't really like sympathy; I don't like it for myself. Sometimes sympathy you feel like, you're kind of trying to victimize someone.

Charlize Theron