Merwins Shrimp Gumbo Quotes & Sayings

Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. — Alfred Binet

I didn't go there looking for you. I went looking for me." My voice is soft, low, and shaky. "But now, here you are, and somehow, in finding you, I think I've found myself. — Tamara Ireland Stone

he didn't give a damn about being popular; he cared only about being right. — Robert Ludlum

As Einstein once wrote (more ringingly in German than in this English translation by one of us [DG]) to honor Isaac Newton: Look unto the stars to teach us How the master's thoughts can reach us Each one follows Newton's math Silently along its path. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of."
Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake."
"Sure you do."
"I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those."
"Yeah? Prove it. — Sarah Dessen