Extramural Funding Quotes & Sayings

An irresistible passion that would induce me to believe in innate ideas and the truth of prophecy has decided my career. I have always loved liberty with the enthusiasm which actuates the religious man with the passion of a lover and with the conviction of a geometrician. — Marquis De Lafayette

I actually felt awed by the remote possibilities of the person you liked ever liking you back a corresponding amount. — Marisha Pessl

Error, by force of contrast, enhances the triumph of Truth ... — Marcel Proust

She surrendered then to the pleasure, giving herself over to the power of his touch. Dragging him with her into a sensual haze, reveling in the desire, hiding the strength of her reaction from the man loving her body. Because the truth was that she was no longer in control. Somehow, Evan had wormed his way past her defenses. He'd snuck in and nestled near her heart. And that scared the hell out of her. — Jessica Scott

If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind. — John Bytheway

The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3. — Kami Garcia

Better I would have been at pulling parsnips out of my nose than charming any man, even if I so desired it, even if I quadrupled my studies in her unique curriculum. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

If you want to know about the Sixties, play the music of The Beatles. — Aaron Copland

Does a daughter judge her father?" whispered Qing-jao. "Of course she does," said Father. "Every day all people judge all other people. The question is whether we judge wisely. — Orson Scott Card

Loving Alec helped me decide who I want to be. That's all I ever had to do, was decide who that was. It's always been my choice. — Nyrae Dawn

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise. — George Herbert

It is so tempting to return rudeness with rudeness! — Mallory Ortberg

We're all dying. We're all in the process of oxidizing. Everyone of us is in the process of oxidizing, so to sort of interrupt one aspect of that while everything else goes on, it's a freak show. — Mel Gibson