Schmoozers Exchange Quotes & Sayings

I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist. — E.L. Konigsburg

Even if we never reach the stars by our own efforts, in the millions of years that lie ahead it is almost certain that the stars will come to us. Isolationism is neither a practical policy on the national or cosmic scale. And when the first contact with the outer universe is made, one would like to think that Mankind played an active and not merely a passive role-that we were the discoverers, not the discovered. — Arthur C. Clarke

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together ... together they do awful things they don't mean to do. — Monica Furlong

It is best to have a strong curiosity, weak affiliations. — E.B. White

If you don't expect to like someone and then you do, that's an incredibly exciting moment. — Steven Moffat

We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found. — Tzvetan Todorov

I think the canary left some feathers in there after you ate it. — Ally Carter

It is harder for women, perhaps to be 'one-pointed,' much harder for them to clear space around whatever it is they want to do beyond household chores and family life. Their lives are fragmented ... the cry not so much for a 'a room of one's own' as time of one's own. Conflict become acute, whatever it may be about, when there is no margin left on any day in which to try at least to resolve it. — May Sarton