Wolfenden Quotes

#1. But now what? Is this a ticket to a new understanding of my life, or a bomb that's going to blow up everything?

Consider one more possibility: that you remain essentially the same person you were, neither new nor destroyed.

Ellen Ullman

#2. And winter was coming.

George R R Martin

#3. His [the President's] earnest desire is, that you may perpetuated and preserved as a nation; and this he believes can only be doneand secured by your consent to remove to a country beyond the Mississippi ... Where you are, it is not possible you can live contented and happy.

Andrew Jackson

#4. You have failed. You can't control me!

Veronica Roth

#5. It was reported that a plane had crashed into the forest one night.

J.W. Patterson

#6. Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

John Wolfenden, Baron Wolfenden

#7. In the history of mankind, no single person yet has learned to swim by having the strokes explained. At some point, they dive in.

Charles Martin

#8. I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Brian Eno

#9. to Tim, she'd always be that

Thomas Wolfenden

#10. To her, I was nothing, and she got me to the point where I didn't care what happened to me, as long as she was gone, too.

Ann Aguirre

#11. It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.

Timothy Gowers