Quotes & Sayings About Godsons

My main form of transportation at that time was a bicycle, because bicycles could move though the crowd. — John Pomfret

I have realised just how important it is to readers to feel that fictional stories are based on reality. — Nicole Krauss

If the joy of scientific discovery is one-shot per discovery, then, from a fun-theoretic perspective, Newton probably used up a substantial increment of the total Physics Fun available over the entire history of Earth-originating intelligent life. That selfish bastard explained the orbits of planets and the tides. — Eliezer Yudkowsky

I remember the astonishment I felt when I first read Shakespeare. I expected to receive a powerful esthetic pleasure, but having read, one after the other, works regarded as his best: "King Lear," "Romeo and Juliet," "Hamlet" and "Macbeth," not only did I feel no delight, but I felt an irresistible repulsion and tedium ... Shakespeare can not be recognized either as a great genius, or even as an average author ... far from being the height of perfection, [King Lear] is a very bad, carelessly composed production, ... can not evoke among us anything but aversion and weariness ... All his characters speak, not their own, but always one and the same Shakespearian, pretentious, and unnatural language ... — Leo Tolstoy

I do think that more people are feminists than they realize. — Jessica Valenti

I feel a freedom when I start running. If I don't train, I feel like everyone else in the Gaza Strip. — Nader Al-Masri