Waldfogel Family Foundation Quotes & Sayings

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear. — Annie Baker

You must not think
That we are made of stuff so fat and dull
That we can let our beard be shook with danger
And think it pastime. — William Shakespeare

The Russians have held my title for ten years and they're going to be in for it when I win the Championship. They're going to have to wait and play under my conditions. — Bobby Fischer

The first experiments on the biological properties of radium were successfully made in France, with samples from our laboratory, while my husband was living. — Marie Curie

I would as soon leave my son a curse as the almighty dollar. — Andrew Carnegie

Nighttime riddles plague your mind
so what you've dreamt, you quickly write.
A notebook, words - that's all you get,
No faint idea have you yet.
Be patient, and look close to see
what the riddle's answer be
'Cause only one who learns that key
can read truth in my prophecies
So think, my dearest, long and deep
You might just find the news I keep. — Kata Mlek

Over the past two weeks she's worked her way through it [the book], a little each night, savoring the words like a cherry Life Saver tucked inside her cheek. — Celeste Ng

So they can create a class they don't like-here, homosexuals-or a class that they consider is suspect in the marriage category, and they can create that class and decide benefits on that basis when they themselves have no interest in the actual institution of marriage as married? — Sonia Sotomayor

Lots of cops married nurses, Tallow knew. Nurses understood the life: murderous shiftwork, long stretches of boredom, sudden adrenaline spikes, blood everywhere. Tallow almost smiled as he followed his wincing partner into the apartment building. He made sure the door closed as silently as possible, and only then did he draw his firearm. — Warren Ellis

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John. — Charles Dickens

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear.
To be we know not what, we know not where. — John Dryden