Navinet Quotes & Sayings

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. — Lev Grossman

The guiding principle of Martin's personality, the sum of his interior existence, was the desire to be left alone. If all those years he'd sought attention, even novelty, and if he still relished them, then that was because attention proved him different and solitude begins in difference. — Jonathan Franzen

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things. — Maya Lin

It is the ultimate wisdom of the mountains that a man is never more a man than when he is striving for what is beyond his grasp. — James Ramsey Ullman

Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world. — Russell Simmons

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope. — Cameron Dokey

The Airlines lady who travels in the same compartment as us day after day, has bruises on her arms and face today and her eyes keep welling, but no one asks her why. Our eyes dart towards her, but we go back to travelling in too much proximity. Two inches from one another and expressionless. — Amruta Patil

As the summer moves on, there are Saturday nights when I come home and find friends I haven't even been out with sitting up in the hot tub. — Brian O'Driscoll