Unblinded Academy Quotes

#1. We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

John Evelyn

#2. The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. I wrote because I could not help it. There was something that I wanted to say, and I said it: that was all. The fame and the money and the usefulness might or might not follow. It was not by my endeavor if they did.

Harriet Martineau

#4. My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts.

Charles Darwin

#5. It's funny. I don't like onions but I like onion rings. What's up with that?

Jared Leto

#6. If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

Ralph Marston

#7. Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

Sylvia Plath

#8. We listen for guidance everywhere except from within.

Parker J. Palmer

#9. Luck could be earned and created. It could be discovered. It could be regained. After all - I'd found this girl. I'd found my future. I'd found forgiveness. My mother would have been happy for me ...

Tammara Webber