Jaenisch Gambit Quotes & Sayings

In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal. — Willis R. Whitney

As for school, well, the only kids who read books for pleasure, who read outside of when a teacher was literally standing over them in the classroom, were the freaks. The kids like ... like him. Docherty. The Professor. Strange and unexpected then when I discovered under Mr Cardew's encouragement that what seemed to me to be tracts of boredom and torture actually contained un imaginable vistas, entire worlds of escape. (And you were much in need of escape then, weren't you?) That you could open one of them and start turning the pages and that, instead of time slowing down and refusing to pass, you would look up at the clock (that clock, in its mesh cage) and the deadly, endless afternoon ahead of you would have vanished. — John Niven

Ten minutes later, I chance a second look. They say curiosity killed the cat. I wonder what that cat was looking at, and was it as interesting as this? — Sheena Hutchinson

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife. — Henry Glassford Bell

But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely. — Janice Dickinson

What a great advantage a man can have over women, if he only knew what cold and calculating thoughts are going through her mind ... while her eyes are brimming with tears. — Esther Vilar

An old person knows what it's like to be young, but a young person doesn't know what it's like to be old. There's no substitute for life experience. — Eleanor Brownn