Workshopping Letter Quotes & Sayings

Well, the first thing to say is that we've worked hard to maintain compatibility, so that any program written with an earlier version of Mathematica can run without change in 3.0, and any notebook can be converted. — Stephen Wolfram

It was my misfortune-or salvation-to be at all times perfectly conscious of my misperceptions of reality. — Susanna Kaysen

Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you. — Julia Child

Much of the stress and emptiness that haunt us can be traced back to our lack of attention to beauty. Internally, the mind becomes coarse and dull if it remains unvisited by images and thoughts that hold the radiance of beauty. — John O'Donohue

The students we saw were all bright, attractive, and polite, and the teachers all seemed to be smart and dedicated, and I began to appreciate the benefits of a private school education. If only I'd had the opportunity to attend a place like this, who knows what I might have become? Perhaps instead of a mere blood-spatter analyst who slunk away at night to kill without conscience, I could have become a doctor, or a physicist, or even a senator who slunk away at night to kill without conscience. It was terribly sad to think of all my wasted potential. — Jeff Lindsay

3,117 people had lost their lives in the flood. And the king had missed breakfast — Kay Kenyon

Leading economists have shown that by shrinking Texas, we can actually create more income for Texas in the long run. — Ian Frazier

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.' — Jim Rash

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants. — Benjamin Graham

You know -" Bailey pulled her aside "-you're stoning yourself. You have to stop doing that and remember what happened when those people wanted to stone that girl. Jesus said for the one who hadn't sinned to cast the first stone. But you're saving people the trouble by stoning yourself. — Brenda Minton

I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course they are. Sex is not discrete from the rest of our existence. — Alan Moore

The first Broadway show I saw was when I was 11. I saw 'Hair.' — Bebe Neuwirth

You have complete faith in me? For reals?"
"Yes. Well, not your cooking. Other than that, absolutely."
I gasped. "I've cooked for you, like, twice."
"Two times too many, pumpkin. Two times too many. — Darynda Jones

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry. — Ian Anderson