Stiehm Judith Quotes

#1. Who would sup with the mighty must climb the path of daggers.

-Anonymous notation found inked in the margin of a manuscript history (believed to date to the time of Arthur Hawkwing) of the last days of the Tovan Conclaves

Robert Jordan

#2. [The monks'] credulity debased and vitiated the faculties of the mind: they corrupted the evidence of history; and superstition gradually extinguished the hostile light of philosophy and science.

Edward Gibbon

#3. I miss good old-fashioned honorable people just trying to make something of life. Simply, without hurting anyone else. I know that makes me a sap.

Paula McLain

#4. I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

Craig Ferguson

#5. I want to know why I read as a child with such a frantic appetite, why I sucked the words off the page with such an edge of desperation.

Francis Spufford

#6. Emphasis in the Marine Corps isn't on talking about your feelings.

Adam Driver

#7. The Boov are having seven magnificent genders. There is boy, girl, boygirl, girlboy, boyboy, boyboygirl, and boyboyboyboy." I

Adam Rex

#8. I wanted to break the record, of course, and become the youngest person to sail around the world solo and unassisted.

Abby Sunderland