Antajina Quotes & Sayings

Writing an encyclopedia is hard. To do anywhere near a decent job, you have to know a great deal of information about an incredibly wide variety of subjects. Writing so much text is difficult, but doing all the background research seems impossible. — Aaron Swartz

Incredulous, Hannah gasped. I certainly don't want to attract that kind of attention from Christian. It's ... it's sinful. — J.E.B. Spredemann

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. — Elihu Root

Monastic communities are to the great social community what the mistletoe is to the oak, what the wart is to the human body. — Victor Hugo

My heart is in helping people and in the less materialistic side of things, but there's the side of me that's more polished. — Evangeline Lilly

I think every fiction writer, to a certain extent, is a schizophrenic and able to have two or three or five voices in his or her body. We seek, through our profession, to get those voices onto paper. — Ridley Pearson

But there was not a moment when she did not see Carol in her mind, and all she saw, she seemed to see through Carol. That evening, the dark flat streets of New York, the tomorrow of work, the milk bottle dropped and broken in her sink, became unimportant. She flung herself on her bed and drew a line with a pencil on a piece of paper. And another line, carefully, and another. A world was born around her, like a bright forest with a million shimmering leaves. — Patricia Highsmith

On July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong, another American born and raised in western Ohio, stepped onto the moon, he carried with him, in tribute to the Wright brothers, a small swatch of the muslin from a wing of their 1903 Flyer. — David McCullough

Rabbi Alfred Bettleheim once said: "Prejudice saves us a painful trouble, the trouble of thinking. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Fellas, things are going to change. I know how bad DeMatha's teams have been during these last few years, but that's over with. We're going to win at DeMatha and we're going to build a tradition of winning. Starting right now ... But let me tell you how we're going to do it. We're going to outwork every team we ever play ... With a lot of hard work and discipline and dedication, people are going to hear about us and respect us, because DeMatha will be a winner. — John C. Maxwell