Notably Different Quotes & Sayings

When you think all is lost, the things you need most return unexpectedly. — Susannah Cahalan

I'm not Israeli and because I'm not a citizen, it doesn't matter how often I go there - I'm still not Israeli. There's this way I feel so close to so many people there, but I always feel like I'm staring through the glass. And in a way, having this really thin piece of glass between me and this place is incredibly useful for me as a writer, because I'm just so hyper-aware of it. I could take a walk in San Francisco and probably notice a third of the things that I would notice in Israel, because I'm just attuned to everything when I'm there. — Molly Antopol

True human progress is based less on the inventive mind than on the conscience of such men as Brandeis.
~ Albert Einstein — Albert Einstein

God requires his people to shine as lights in the world. It is not merely the ministers who are required to do this, but every disciple of Christ. Their conversation should be heavenly. — Ellen G. White

There are actors I know personally, or I've heard them say, "The less known about me, the better, because I just want people to think of me as the character." I think Matt Damon said that recently. He has a point and I think I get that. — Winona Ryder

Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity. — Neil MacGregor

You lie through your teeth. You wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up your ass and bit you on the balls. — Pippa DaCosta

Everything was new once, after all. — Neil Gaiman

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere. — V.S. Pritchett

Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold. — C.S. Lewis

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy. — Jim Rohn

But real-world questions aren't like word problems. A real-world problem is something like "Has the recession and its aftermath been especially bad for women in the workforce, and if so, to what extent is this the result of Obama administration policies?" Your calculator doesn't have a button for this. Because in order to give a sensible answer, you need to know more than just numbers. What shape do the job-loss curves for men and women have in a typical recession? Was this recession notably different in that respect? What kind of jobs are disproportionately held by women, and what decisions has Obama made that affect that sector of the economy? It's only after you've started to formulate these questions that you take out the calculator. But at that point the real mental work is already finished. Dividing one number by another is mere computation; figuring out what you should divide by what is mathematics. — Jordan Ellenberg

No, I can't write treatments, I think there's a danger with treatments. That you ... you write out your first excitement and enthusiasm in a prose treatment. — Ronald Harwood