Huntington Library Quotes & Sayings

First, this law - the National Defense Education Act - ended years and years of debate about one controversial question: 'Shall the Federal Government, with all its massive resources, get directly involved in aiding American education?' The answer this law gave was a loud 'Yes!' - and thus we paved the way for a new era of support for education in America. This law, in fact, helped make possible more than 50 new education laws passed in my administration. — Lyndon B. Johnson

Change a word or two, even a single letter, and you change the entire story. — Samantha Shannon

Maybe he should have thought about all this before he knocked her up with the life-sucking monster. — Stephenie Meyer

The lunatic is the man who lives in a small world but thinks it is a large one; he is the man who lives in a tenth of the truth, and thinks it is the whole. The madman cannot conceive any cosmos outside a certain tale or conspiracy or vision. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company. — N. R. Narayana Murthy

There is the satisfaction of being able to look at the image without flinching. There is the pleasure of flinching. — Sontag, Susan

A child can have too many toys, but never
enough books. — Jarrett J. Krosoczka