Unplaited Quotes

#1. How can we preserve our planet on which little girls are supposed to sleep in their beds, and not lie dead on the road with unplaited pigtails? And so that childhood would never again be called war-time childhood.

Svetlana Alexievich

#2. Sometimes it is more comfortable to live in the past. It is where you have already been, what you already know. It is because the future is unknown that it scares us. But the future is here, and you cannot stop it. Embrace it because one day this future will be the past you may want to revisit.

Matthew A. DeBettencourt

#3. It was like letting go of the sky.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#4. If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

John Horton Conway

#5. Let's think about something more cheerful, shall we? Like puppies or flowers or samurai swords.

Heather Wood

#6. Memory's got nothing to do with years. You remember what you remember.

Ian McEwan

#7. You said your mom is the goddess of balance," I reminded him. "The minor gods deserve better, Ethan, but total destruction isn't balance. Kronos doesn't build. He only destroys.

Rick Riordan

#8. "My Trigger" is the best combination of song and track. "Heart Is Full" is maybe the best song we've done as a song, and that's why we try to play it in different ways, too, because I think for a lot of people the track was a bit distracting from the song.

Andrew Wyatt

#9. It is easier to bridge the oceans that lie between continents than it is to bridge the gap between individuals or the peoples.

Mahatma Gandhi

#10. Here we are, by the side of the river - once upon a time we had a notion we were Romeo's.

Jack Kerouac

#11. Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Alice Childress

#12. I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

Malcolm McDowell

#13. The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.

Franz Grillparzer

#14. Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

Alex Lowe

#15. Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson