Signatura Rerum Quotes & Sayings

I ... express a wish that you may, in your generation, be fit to compare to a candle; that you may, like it, shine as lights to those about you; that, in all your actions, you may justify the beauty of the taper by making your deeds honourable and effectual in the discharge of your duty to your fellow-men. — Michael Faraday

It can fuck you up, if you meet the most important person in your life when you're sixteen, seventeen. You imprint on them, and you never escape from it. That's what happened to me. — Elizabeth Hand

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn. — Gene Hackman

For God himself the height of feeling free
Must have been His success in simile
When at sight of you He thought of me. — Robert Frost

Put kindness into action and you might just start a chain reaction! — Amey Hegde

If you think before you speak the other guy gets his joke in first. — Jimmy Nail

You ain't average! But you know what? You're playing small because it's easier to be average. — Eric Thomas

I am lost in the world of books. So many books to read. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I don't remember that." He shook his head. "Of course you don't. You were in another world, completely occupied with whatever you were reading. — Emery Lord

You are loved, someone said. Take that and eat it. — Mary Karr

My friends will help me stay grounded, and so will my family. — Rowan Blanchard

Wagner's music is better than it sounds. — Mark Twain