Lxiii In Numbers Quotes & Sayings

Father: 'Anything but journalism.' I rebelled. — Malcolm Gladwell

The most important thing people did for me was to expose me to new things. — Temple Grandin

An egg is a chemical process, but it is not a mere chemical process. It is one that is going places - even when, in our world of chance and contingency, it ends up in an omelet and not in a chicken. Though it surely be a chemical process, we cannot understand it adequately without knowing the kind of chicken it has the power to become. — John Randall

My husband, Clay Felker, died 17 years after his first cancer due to secondary conditions that developed from treatment. — Gail Sheehy

When it comes to bending the truth to assist a story's plot versus staying completely true to the facts, we can assure you any dramatist will always select the former. Mark Twain's old saying "Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" still reigns in Hollywood. — James Morcan

It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed. — Paula Poundstone

We are here to learn to endure the beams of love. — William Blake

I didn't believe in happily-ever-after, but I did believe in happier-than-we'd-ever-been, because I was living it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

I'm really intrigued by those eternal questions of creation and belief and faith. I don't care who you are, it's what we all think about. It's in the back of all our minds. — Ridley Scott

The enemy understands a free Iraq will be a major defeat in their ideology of hatred. That's why they're fighting so vociferously. — George W. Bush

I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way. — Robert Griffin III

Life is too short. I don't have time to speak slowly. — Dev Anand

One of the wonderful things about Portlandia - and I'm not just blowing smoke, although I can blow smoke, but I'm not - is that there is an expansive feeling to each segment. It's not reductive. It doesn't seem like sketch comedy. — Scott Raab