How To Read L2 Quotes & Sayings

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form. — Hugh Laurie

[A]s a graduate student at Columbia University, I remember the a priori derision of my distinguished stratigraphy professor toward a visiting Australian drifter [a supporter of the theory of continental drift]. [ ... ] Today [ ... ] my own students would dismiss with even more derision anyone who denied the evident truth of continental drift a prophetic madman is at least amusing; a superannuated fuddy-duddy is merely pitiful. — Stephen Jay Gould

As we deprive marriage policy of definite shape, we deprive it of public purpose. — Sherif Girgis

A person does not have to be religious to reach the top of the Ladder of Success; but every one that step onto the Ladder of Success, must have hope. — Ellen J. Barrier

It would have hurt no matter who took you the first time. — Judith McNaught

Christopher Reeve understood that ... everything begins with hope. His vision of walking again, his belief that he would be able to in his lifetime, towered over his broken body. — Patti Davis

We both felt that the chief virtue of an interpreter consists in clarity combined with brevity. And — John Calvin

I'll have to lift your penis now to grease around it. — Dennis Potter

But he had expressed to Mme. du Chatelet the hope that a way out might lie in applying philosophy to history, and endeavoring to trace, beneath the flux of political events, the history of the human mind. 'Only philosophers should write history,' he said. 'In all nations, history is disfigured by fable, till at last philosophy comes to enlighten man; and when it does finally arrive in the midst of darkness, it finds the human mind so blinded centuries of error, that it can hardly undeceive it; it finds ceremonies, facts and monuments, heaped up to prove lies.' 'History,' he concludes, 'is after all nothing but a pack of tricks which we play upon the dead;' we transform the past to suit our wishes for the future, and in the upshot 'history proves that anything can be proved by history. — Will Durant

Even in the most stressed times there is always time for reading. — Emilie And Stephanie

What others think does not matter. What you think about you is what matters. — Debasish Mridha

Already published reports, as well as our own observations indicate that smallpox vaccination sometimes produces manifestations of leukemia. In children and adults observed in the clinics of Cracow, smallpox vaccination has been followed by violent local and general reactions and by leukemia. — Julian Aleksandrowicz

When a family is free of abuse and oppression, it can be the place where we share our deepest secrets and stand the most exposed, a place where we learn to feel distinct without being better, - and sacrifice for others without losing ourselves. — Letty Cottin Pogrebin

What inspires you, what excites you when you wake up in the morning? — Jennifer Aniston