Januszewski Mcquillan Quotes & Sayings

Perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read. — Cornelia Funke

Coming at us like this--in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny it, riding its crest until it subsides from consciousness... "Ignorance." In this root sense, ignorance is an act of will, a choice that one makes over and over again, especially when information overwhelms and knowledge has become synonymous with impotence... If we can't act on knowledge, then we can't survive without ignorance... Ignorance becomes empowering because it enables people to live. Stupidity becomes proactive, a political statement. — Ruth Ozeki

I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.
-Calvin — Bill Watterson

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in. — Margaret Smith

Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron. — Lizzie Andrew Borden

Nobody said it's going to be easy. You have to dig into yourself. Think about your family. Think about the journey itself. THINK IN THE MOMENT. — Meb Keflezighi

God, you smell nice," he whispered. "I've missed that smell. I've missed everything about you, little Ann. — Wendy Higgins

Keeping the balance of fast-growing and smooth-growing is always important. It's almost an art. — Guo Guangchang

I looked at Adrian's eyes, beautiful, mesmerizing. Not human. I didn't feel
lonely at all. "You'll take me places?" I asked. His answer was important, even
though my decision was already made.
"You can't imagine where we'll go." He said, sincerely. — Amy Lane

The thing is, it's very dangerous to have a fixed idea. A person with a fixed idea will always find some way of convincing himself in the end that he is right — Atle Selberg

It was like being at an Arabian hoedown with a band of psychedelic hillbillies (p. 171). — Patti Smith