Pittsburghs Once Upon A Yarn Quotes & Sayings

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The value of science is not simply what the next model of the iPod you will buy next week, but its real value comes about when it's time to distinguish reality from everything else. And to be scientifically literate is to be trained in what it is, to recognize your own frailty as a data-taking device. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

I have a condition!" I blurted. Silence. "Like an STD?" he asked. "God no! No! Oh my God." I blushed profusely and turned my face, burying it in my pillow. "Okay. So, no STD," Reece said. "By the way, it would have been okay if you had. We'd figure out how to work with it." "Oh. My. God. Stop talking about STDs," I demanded. "You got it. — S. Walden

I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances. — Marcia Clark

The step between practical and theoretic science, is the step between the miner and the geologist, the apocathecary and the chemist. — John Ruskin

These people need a hero, Slade thought, with a sigh. And I'm running out of Twinkie. — Sara King

Life is about balance. It's not about forgetting the bad times or escaping them. It's about creating enough good times to outweigh the bad. — Tommy Cotton

Do what you have to do so that you can be what you want to be — Benjamin Carson

As with products on supermarket shelves, the public has a right to know where their financial products and services come from. — Geoff Mulgan

Mary was fond of her own thoughts, and could amuse herself well sitting in twilight with her hands in her lap; for, having early had strong reason to believe that things were not likely to be arranged for her peculiar satisfaction, she wasted no time in astonishment and annoyance at that fact. And she had already come to take life very much as a comedy in which she had a proud, nay, a generous resolution not to act the mean or treacherous part. — George Eliot

The keys to brand success are self-definition, transparency, authenticity and accountability. — Simon Mainwaring

Welcome to the free world. We give people the power to choose. They can even choose the wrong thing. Beautiful, isn't it? — Lauren Oliver

My father, Bobby Oates*, said that love at first sight should send you running, if you know what's good for you. It's your dark pieces having instant recognition with their dark pieces, he says. You're an idiot if you think it means you've met your soul mate. So I was an idiot. He looked so nice. He was so nice. — Deb Caletti

After about ten seconds, he inhaled and shook — Alice Clayton