Wikipedians Quotes

#1. In cyberspace, the Wikipedians never stop gathering: It's a continuous round-the-clock rolling workfest.

James Gleick

#2. Wikipedians believe (and I do, too) that bits, being abstract, will outlast paper.

James Gleick

#3. Flying is like sex - I've never had all I wanted but occasionally I've had all I could stand.

Stephen Coonts

#4. An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Geoffrey Canada

#5. No Scrabble. More and more of his friends were playing it now, in a knowing ironic way, triple-word-score-craving freaks, but it seemed to him like a game designed expressly to make him feel stupid and bored.

David Nicholls

#6. We're beginning the age in which machines attached to our bodies will make us stronger and more efficient,

Hugh Herr

#7. I like smoking! I mean, God, I quit everything else, can't I smoke?

Melanie Griffith

#8. There isn't a lot written about the motorcycle culture.

Katey Sagal

#9. German nudists are the only successful rebels against Nazi control," he wrote.

Andrew Nagorski

#10. All my feather stuff is in L.A. at a temperature-controlled stage-storage place. I keep all my good stuff there because if I had it all in my house, I wouldn't have any room for my regular clothes. It has to, like, not live here.

Stevie Nicks

#11. Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

Maya Angelou

#12. There's beauty in people who reinvent themselves. Actors live a thousand lives, as do hackers ... the personality can play around forever.

Shia Labeouf

#13. Economists want their discipline to be a science, and they have nailed down a few precepts, but many of their debates are still clouded by ideology.

Nathan Myhrvold

#14. If you can do something when it's not fun, even when you're exhausted and bored and want to give up, then it just might be your calling.

Jeff Goins

#15. The jury is supposed to be twelve peers, but technically that would mean every single person on the jury should have Asperger's syndrome, because then they'd really understand me.

Jodi Picoult

#16. Together, Thomas and Teresa watched, and imagined what it must be like.

James Dashner

#17. It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

Lisa See