Tecla Shift Quotes

#1. All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are some who demand of themselves a 'rate of production,' for whom it's a matter of pride to complete, say, a book every year.

Graham Swift

#2. Just this whole journey [of life] has been a blessing from God, so for me to be here [on Earth] I'm just taking it one day at a time and really enjoying it.

Jeremy Lin

#3. Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

Mark Twain

#4. Glory is a scandal. Let me state once & for all: I do not wish to be civilized.

Arthur Cravan

#5. She'd trained herself for so long not to want or to hope or to wish, that she had a hard time pinning down something to ask for.

Wendy Wunder

#6. Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

James Thurber

#7. The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.

John Gurdon

#8. There is much to be said for trying to improve some disadvantaged people's lot. There is nothing to be said for trying to create heaven on earth.

Margaret Thatcher

#9. A relationship that is not actively nurtured dies out eventually, I told myself. Or does it?

Sandhya Jane

#10. Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.

John Keats

#11. I give him a strange look. Just a second ago he was grousing, and now he's happy as a clam. I don't get boys.

Jenny Han

#12. When I was younger, my father told me not to pigeonhole the way that I perceive myself.

Domhnall Gleeson

#13. Midwives do not fear life.

Anita Diamant

#14. In the early days of aviation, there was a great deal of experimentation and a high death rate.

Elon Musk