Unswept Stone Quotes

#1. Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time. (Off topic, but: What a slut time is.

John Green

#2. The war will end one day. Wars always do.

Scott Westerfeld

#3. Maybe I only think everyone wants to be a writer because the friends I naturally choose are people who love books. People who love books sooner or later dream of writing them. It's a natural response to stimuli.

Ellen Gilchrist

#4. Knowledge," Tara replied, turning a page as quietly as she could manage, "is power.

Max Gladstone

#5. Knowledge is constructed, not transferred

Peter Senge

#6. History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

Martin O'Malley

#7. For every mistake is a lesson and for every lesson learned is victory.

Abdulkadir Abdullahi Mohamed Mirre

#8. I am the extreme member of the band because I never go out after the show. It's my rule.

Laurent Brancowitz

#9. I think with the success of, like, every summer there has been a couple R-rated comedies that have done so well; I think it is so nice to see that people are turning out to see these movies, and it doesn't seem to be as big a stigma with the studios anymore.

Will Ferrell

#10. Not marble, nor the gilded monuments / Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; / But you shall shine more bright in these contents / Than unswept stone, besmear'd with sluttish time.

John Green

#11. When you're in love, it's not just about the messing around in the sack, it's about how empty you feel when they're gone.

Ozzy Osbourne

#12. For, whom the Muses smile upon,
And touch with soft persuasion,
His words like a storm-wind can bring
Terror and beauty on their wing;
In his every syllable
Lurketh nature veritable.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#13. The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

Emil Theodor Kocher

#14. A spirit of criticism, if indulged in, leads to a censoriousness of disposition that is destructive of all nobler feeling. The man who lives to find faults has a miserable mission.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#15. Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime. ~Aristotle

Nichole Force

#16. Way back about nineteen-twenty there was a Klan ... The Ku Klux's gone ... It'll never come back.

Harper Lee

#17. I had never expected medicine to be such a lawless, uncertain world. I wondered if the compulsive naming of parts, diseases, and chemical reactions - frenulum, otitis, glycolysis - was a mechanism invented by doctors to defend themselves against a largely unknowable sphere of knowledge.

Siddhartha Mukherjee