Elsevier Journals Quotes & Sayings

If there's anything I think that you've seen about me, it's that I'm the rebellious girl. — Aubrey O'Day

My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again! — Elizabeth Strout

I think there will be more smiles when the smoke clears. — Shaun Alexander

I will gather myself around my faith,
for light does the darkness most fear. — Jewel

But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves. The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations. Want to read the papers featuring the most famous results of the sciences? You'll need to send enormous amounts to publishers like Reed Elsevier. — Aaron Swartz

See Cook [op.cit.] for a discussion of Huygens's unusual wartime visit to Cambridge and the Royal Society. His philosophical contretemps with Isaac Newton in 1675 (referenced in Society minutes as "The Great Corpuscular Debate") would mark the last significant intellectual discourse between England and the continent prior to the chaos of the Interregnum and the Annexation . . . Some Newton biographers [Winchester (1867), &c] indicate Huygens may have used his sojourn in Cambridge to access Newton's alchemical journals and that key insights derived thusly may have been instrumental to Huygens's monumental breakthrough. However, cf. Hooft [1909] and references therein for a critique of the forensic alchemy underlying this assertion. From Freeman, Thomas S., A History of the Pre-Annexation England from Hastings to the Glorious Revolution, 3 Vols. New Amsterdam: Elsevier, 1918. — Ian Tregillis

You always look like someone's sucked the life right out of you when something fascinates you. -Tris — Veronica Roth

If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves. — Victoria Beckham

My mother was mad, but I was not. My father was old, but I was young. Like Spartan Helen, I caused a war. She caused hers by letting men who wanted her take her. I caused mine because I wouldn't be given, wouldn't be taken, but chose my man and my fate. — Ursula K. Le Guin

So if you do something, you should be observant, and careful, and alert. — Shunryu Suzuki

Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it. — Neel Burton

I was taught never to take advantage of anybody who was less fortunate than myself, whether he be less fortunate in brains, wealth, or social position; it meant anybody... — Harper Lee