Jansky Lecture Quotes & Sayings

He must have been one of those men who doesn't really notice such things and leaves it to others to sort out any awkwardness or imperfections. This is not because they are thoughtless or because they consider themselves too high and might, it's simply that their brains don't register these practicalities or the world around them. — Javier Marias

You think giving you a hug would give away too much?" he says.
"You know," I say. "I really don't care."
I stand on my tiptoes and press my lips to his.
It is the best moment of my life. — Veronica Roth

You've got to kill your darlings. — Andre Dubus III

One! said the count mysteriously, his eyes fixed on the corpse, disfigured by so awful a death. — Alexandre Dumas

I did everything I could to establish myself, but it just didn't work that way. I'm not angry about that. — Tim Hardaway

It's not so much about what you ask as what you don't ask. — Michael Parkinson

Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake. — Raymond Chandler

I just wanted to hear him speak again. His voice made me want to take my pants off. — Tara Sivec

Sometimes you just have to pick a direction and make mistakes. Then you use what you learn from your failure to pick new, better directions so you can make more mistakes and keep learning. — Matthew Quick

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language. — Jane Goodall

If I said any more it would just be a lie; you can't use words to corral something this wild. — Ben Weaver

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence. — Bob Graham

The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet. — George Bernard Shaw

My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton. — Olivia Holt