Antigenicity Plot Quotes & Sayings

The English major is, first of all, a reader. She's got a book pup-tented in front of her nose many hours a day; her Kindle glows softly late into the night. But there are readers and there are readers. There are people who read to anesthetize themselves - they read to induce a vivid, continuous, and risk-free daydream. They read for the same reason that people grab a glass of chardonnay - to put a light buzz on. The English major reads because, as rich as the one life he has may be, one life is not enough. He reads not to see the world through the eyes of other people but effectively to become other people. What is it like to be John Milton, Jane Austen, Chinua Achebe? What is it like to be them at their best, at the top of their games? — Mark Edmundson

It is not possible to staff a large company without short people. There simply aren't enough tall people to go around. — Malcolm Gladwell

To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction. — Ethan Hawke

Get me inside any boardroom and I'll get any decision I want. — Tom Stoppard

the government' - that's too sweeping a term. 'The government' is several million people, nearly a million in Washington alone. We have to ask ourselves: Whose toes were being stepped on? What person or persons? Not 'the government' - but what individuals? — Robert A. Heinlein

People will listen to you only when they know you're dying, otherwise they're just waiting for their turn to talk. — Chuck Palahniuk

If I had to describe my sense of humor, I would say it's contemporary wit, you know what I'm saying? — Tracy Morgan