Recognitions Awards Quotes & Sayings

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking ... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys ... every line has its own meaning. — Sarah

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking. — Bill Nye

It's better to die doing good than to live doing evil. — Brigham Young

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick. — Jill A. Davis

Peace equals love. — Asa Don Brown

It's really interesting to go back to '93 or '94 and listen to that music, like the I'll Lead You Home record. — Michael W. Smith

Sexism in politics is nothing new when you're standing for election. But don't stand for election and it's almost as bad. Shockingly, David Cameron thought it acceptable to claim this week that my decision not to run for the Labour leadership was because my husband, Ed Balls, stopped [me] from standing. — Yvette Cooper

[...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple."
You bought a couple of what?"
Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one." He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I like the way your mind works."
~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells — Catherine Anderson

Of all the ills that our poor ... society is heir to, the focal one, it seems to me, from which so much of our uneasiness and confusion derive, is the absence of standards. — Barbara Tuchman

A creature that hides and "withdraws into its shell," is preparing a "way out." This is true of the entire scale of metaphors, from the resurrection of a man in his grave, to the sudden outburst of one who has long been silent. If we remain at the heart of the image under consideration, we have the impression that, by staying in the motionlessness of its shell, the creature is preparing temporal explosions, not to say whirlwinds, of being. — Gaston Bachelard

I remained standing in the middle of the room, swaying on my feet as though I had received a blow. I thought of my life and saw what it had been. No one could swim against such a current of mud. I had been a man so horrible that he could have no friend. But wasn't that, I asked myself, because I had always been incapable of wearing a disguise? If all men went through life with unmasked faces, as I had done for half a century, one might be surprised to find how little difference there was between them. But, in fact, no one lives with his face uncovered, no one. Most men ape greatness or nobility. Though they do not know it, they conform to certain fixed types, literary or other. This the saints know, and they hate and despise themselves because they see themselves with unclouded eyes. I should not have been so universally condemned had I not been so defenseless, so open, and so naked. — Francois Mauriac

Theorems are fun especially when you are the prover, but then the pleasure fades. What keeps us going are the unsolved problems. — Carl Pomerance

Playoff basketball ... you've got to treat every possession like it's your last. — Paul Pierce

I'm not writing novels, the screenplays are my novels, so I'm gonna write it the best that I can. If the movie never gets made, it'd almost be okay because I did it. It's there on the page. — Quentin Tarantino