Panicked Spelling Quotes & Sayings

My philosophy about the whole thing is that awards are like gifts: it's lovely to receive them, and it is very bad form to covet them. — Charlie Hunnam

We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being. — Oprah Winfrey

The idea of abstract power only exists for academics, not in real life. — Henry A. Kissinger

My dad was a different person when he lectured: his eyes sparkled, his lips turned upward ... 'Think what it must have been like for Darwin, two hundred years ago. He took that voyage on the Beagle [1831] expecting to document the natural world and he stumbled across something impossible. A creature who could defy the laws of physics
straight out of the pages of mythology ... In that one moment, the entire landscape of scientific investigation was drastically and irrevocably changed. The impossible became a widespread scientific reality, as omnipresent as gravity and in some cases, nearly as hard to see. — Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Never use two words when one will do. — Thomas Jefferson

In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work. — Sonja Sohn

The sex is ever to a soldier kind. — Homer

That's why I never married. Marriage is lonely, but it ain't private. That was always my most intense fear about getting married: When everything sucked and I was by myself, I thought, Well, at least I don't have another miserable person to worry about. I figured if you give up your private place and it still turns out to be lonely, you're just screwed. So I felt safer not even thinking about it. — Rob Sheffield

The world was made partly that there may be prayer; partly that our prayers might be answered. — C.S. Lewis