Maria Gaetana Agnesi Quotes & Sayings

True faith goes into operation when there are no answers. — Elisabeth Elliot

When I was little I knew my father had been an orphan and had lived in an orphanage. I was curious, but my father wouldn't satisfy my curiosity. He told only one story about the orphanage, and that was of sneaking out and buying candy, which he sold to other orphans. He said he had a pretty good business going
till he was busted! I guess he told that anecdote because he was the hero of it and I suspect he was rarely the hero as a child, more often the victim. There's a photo of the actual orphanage on my website, and you can see it's a forbidding looking place. — Gail Carson Levine

If there isn't a deep core reason for a film existing, what is the point? For me to be known as a filmmaker that makes films that have a point, I'm stoked. — Neill Blomkamp

A Paper Town is a town that's got a paper mill on it. — John Green

A deliberate plan is not always necessary for the highest art; it emerges. — Paul Johnson

Teachers are everything. I mean, you're a poor kid from the ghetto, your parents are busy working 24/7, working like a Mexican. — John Leguizamo

No photograph can truly recall the beloved's smile. — C.S. Lewis

As she appears in the room, her face is still covered by the hood of her coat, but I can see the outline of her chin, and a faint glow that frightens me. She slowly pulls back the hood and her eyes bore into me. Eyes red with flame, it is though they are scanning my soul, deep within me."

From 'She Blames Me' (Banfield Tales) — Michael Braccia

I am certainly the most fortunate creature ever existed! — Jane Austen

The most important effect of all this was to leave the determination as to which ships were to be spared, which to be sunk, to the discretion of individual U-boat commanders. Thus a lone submarine captain, typically a young man in his twenties or thirties, ambitious, driven to accumulate as much sunk tonnage as possible, far from his base and unable to make wireless contact with superiors, his vision limited to the small and distant view afforded by a periscope, now held the power to make a mistake that could change the outcome of the entire war. As — Erik Larson

The trouble with the world today, she thought, was that people were not prepared to stand up to bad behaviour. — Alexander McCall Smith

Keep your vampire mitts off me. I'm not your friggin' blood toy. — Kim Harrison

Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience. — Alexander MacLaren

Love is an emotion that recognizes itself in others. — Salman Rushdie