Temporum Board Quotes

#1. The Britons (say historians) were naked, civilized men, learned, studious, abstruse in thought and contemplation; naked, simple, plain in their acts and manners; wiser than after ages.

William Blake

#2. It didn't seem right that Sinead could be so careless with other people's lives but still lover her brothers so much. Did loving them make her less of a villain, or did loving them and still being a traitor make her more of one?

C. Alexander London

#3. Were the ironies of taxation any better: raising money for schools and hospitals and roads and bridges, and spending it on blowing up schools and hospitals and roads and bridges in self-defeating wars?

Edward St. Aubyn

#4. I learned about community organizing from my parents. As a child, their stories were so instructive.

Cory Booker

#5. Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.

Rick Nielsen

#6. If you invest your time, talent, and resources, orphans around the world can have much happier and healthier lives.

Beau Sides

#7. The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick).

Robert Hooke

#8. Put forth the necessary concentrated effort and you will be wonderfully helped form sources unknown to you.

William Walker Atkinson

#9. The resurrection is the promise that death will not prevail, that nothingness does not have the last word. God promises to overcome it with life ... We can trust that God will overcome death because Jesus is the resurrection, because on the third day Jesus rose again, as the first of many.

Andrew Root

#10. Find your passion and let it shine for the world to see. Nobody will see the scars you endure, only the brilliance of who you are. Let that be how you're judged.

J.M. Macchiavelli

#11. Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek.

William Shakespeare

#12. Billy Ederle's leaning in the doorway, drinking a Nozzy.

Stephen King

#13. I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

Aminatta Forna

#14. I type everything on my computer. I carry a writer's notebook everywhere, in case I am struck by an idea. I forget things unless I write them down. I'm planning to learn how to dictate into my cellphone; I think that will be very helpful, too.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni