Wsj Online Quotes & Sayings

And there was that trick he did with time, making it speed up when we were together and drag til I saw him again. — Francine Prose

Jean Valjean had undertaken to teach her to read. Sometimes, as he made the child spell, he remembered that it was with the idea of doing evil that he had learned to read in prison. This idea had ended in teaching a child to read. Then the ex-convict smiled with the pensive smile of the angels. He felt in it a premeditation from on high, the will of some one who was not man, and he became absorbed in revery. Good thoughts have their abysses as well as evil ones. — Victor Hugo

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls. — Erika Robuck

I can't think straight any more. It's as if the core of my body is coagulating. — Haruki Murakami

Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers. — Susan Cain

Some places in the world, such as Ramsar, Iran, have a tenfold higher background radiation, — John Brockman