Regenstein Library Quotes & Sayings

Why can't you give me a straight answer?"
"Why can't you ride me like a pony?" He scowled straight back at her, unrepentant. "Don't pretty girls like ponies? I thought they did. — Kylie Scott

The common enemy of humanity is man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... The real enemy then is humanity itself. — Aurelio Peccei

We must never forget that spiritual experience is above all a practical experience of love. And with love, there are no rules. — Paulo Coelho

Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; no fire, no heroism, no intensity of though and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave. — Bertrand Russell

He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I have advocated and I still advocate revolutionary change — Assata Shakur

I don't think about age groups when I write, although I think if I know I'm writing for Children I'll be a bit more ambitious, and think more about every word, because I know that they pay closer attention when they read than adults do. — Neil Gaiman

Laurent said, 'I didn't think anyone was good enough to get past your guard.' 'One person,' said Damen. — C.S. Pacat

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try. — Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Being a husband or a wife, is already a huge responsibility to shoulder, without adding in the expectations. — Norhafsah Hamid

People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. — Vaclav Havel

I don't think in terms of intervals; I think in terms of tonal color. I'm trying to play through as many keys as possible. — Woody Shaw

John Major. He dresses so well. And so quickly. — Gyles Brandreth