Juvenilia Press Quotes & Sayings

Golf is the one game I know
which becomes more and more
difficult the longer one plays it. — Bobby Jones

Efore the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation series of books began to appear in 1979, the scientific autobiography was a largely unfamiliar genre. One recalls Cajal's extraordinary Recollections of My Life, translated into English in 1937, and the little gem of autobiography written by Charles Darwin for his grandchildren in 1876. One supposes that this form of scientific writing is scarce because busy scientists would rather continue to work on scientific problems than to indulge in a retrospective exercise using a writing style — Anonymous

There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way. — Joseph Boyden

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it — Oscar Wilde

We tried to trademark proximity, but you can't because it's a word, — Michael Lewis

You know, I love traveling and I love being exposed to different cultures, but really it's the people that I've met along the way, not the places I've been, that have opened my eyes. — Amy Adams

I do believe that the truth gets out. — Annie Jacobsen

In television, everything is gone with the speed of light, literally. It is no field for anybody with intimations of immortality. — Charles Kuralt

JP Morgan always has higher capital liquidity, that is partially to make up for mistakes and problems and obviously it's a tough economy. We support an oversight committee, we supported some of the compensation, new compensation rules, though we already follow most of them. We support a lot of it. — Jamie Dimon

People want to act like they know celebrities. They want to see pictures. They want to know where you're going. They want to hear you talk about your family. — Kevin Hart

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory. — John Calvin

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places. — Gene Stratton-Porter

After all, every use of language without exception has some, if not all, of the characteristic features of lies. — Harry G. Frankfurt

Smartass Disciple: Master, you keep preaching the truth. They don't listen.
Master of Stupidity: Oh that's not bad. That attitude keeps us in the business. — Toba Beta