135 Degree Quotes & Sayings

Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should. — Lev Grossman

One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinary one. How, then, with me, writing of this Leviathan? Unconsciously my chirography expands into placard capitals. Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their out-reaching comprehensiveness of sweep, as if to include the whole circle of the sciences, and all the generations of whales, and men, and mastodons, past, present, and to come, with all the revolving panoramas of empire on earth, and throughout the whole universe, not excluding its suburbs. Such, and so magnifying, is the virtue of a large and liberal theme! We expand to its bulk. To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. — Herman Melville

Tell me all your fears and I'll carry them for you." That's — Karina Halle

Nine out of ten Americans believe that out of ten people, one person will always disagree with the other nine! — Colin Mochrie

If the historian will be faithful to the photograph, the photograph will be faithful to history. — Beaumont Newhall