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Tastykakes are just another of the many advantages of living in Jersey. They’re made in Philly and shipped to Trenton in all their fresh squishiness. I read once that 439,000 Butterscotch Krimpets are baked every day. And not a heck of a lot of them find their way to New Hampshire. All that snow and scenery and what good does it do you without Tastykakes?

~ Janet Evanovich

When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and it worked, since the first time I played badminton was like the first time I tasted sushi or heard the Beatles or read Wordsworth. This was a sport? This counted for gym requirements?

~ Rob Sheffield

Time to the face the music

~ J.r. Ward

In my father’s scheme of things, there were Italians and then there was the rest of the world.

~ Janet Evanovich

Less abject but more shocking was the letter from the Founder of the Calvary Tabernacle Association in Oklahoma: Professor Einstein, I believe that every Christian in America will answer you, 'We will not give up our belief in our God and his son Jesus Christ, but we invite you, if you do not believe in the God of the people of this nation, to go back where you came from.' I have done everything in my power to be a blessing to Israel, and then you come along and with one statement from your blasphemous tongue, do more to hurt the cause of your people than all the efforts of the Christians who...

~ Richard Dawkins

this is the greatest good to man, to discourse daily on virtue, and other things which you have heard me discussing, examining both myself and others

~ Plato

Hats, like first husbands in my experience, are usually a mistake.

~ Danielle Ganek

and vinegar that makes them sour—and camomile that makes them bitter—and—and barley-sugar and such things that make children sweet-tempered. I only wish people knew that: then they wouldn’t be so stingy about it, you know—

~ Lewis Carroll

There’s always a bear

~ George R.r. Martin

As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian.

~ Richard Dawkins

One can only show how one came to hold whatever opinion one does hold.

~ Virginia Woolf

My skin tingled, and suddenly, Deanna materialized before us. I jumped.

~ Richelle Mead

joking and laughing as they headed off to their new life

~ Markee Anderson

Decide, first, to simply be.

~ Patrick Rhone

Ser Cleos looked like a weasel, fought like a goose, and had the courage of an especially brave ewe.

~ George R.r. Martin

I plodded conscientiously through the twenty-six letters, and the only malady I could conclude I had not got was housemaid's knee.

~ Jerome K. Jerome

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

~ Stephen King

He was so handsome, so beautiful. Inside and out.

~ Jay Bell

Strange clothes you wear, Child of the Dragon. Has the Wheel turned so far? Do the People of the Dragon return to the first Covenant? But you wear a sword. That is neither now nor then.

~ Robert Jordan

So that’s what art is, for the artist,” said Crake. “An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid.

~ Margaret Atwood

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Call me Richard. That’s my real name. Call me that.

~ Stephen King

going to have an industrial society you must have places that will look terrible. Other places you set aside—to say, ‘This is the way it was.’

~ John Mcphee

For all our penny-wisdom,’” he said, “‘for all our soul-destroying slavery to habit, it is not to be doubted that all men have sublime thoughts.

~ Joshua Ferris

Accountable Authentic Collaborative Courageous Passionate Lifelong learner Welcomes feedback Biased toward action Solution oriented Change agent

~ Susan Scott

Never believe anything you hear at a woman’s tit.

~ George R.r. Martin

at points in our lives, we have to choose the hills we’re willing to die on.

~ Christa Allan

Here’s another example of the difference in our worldviews. A family in my sister’s neighborhood was recently stricken with a double tragedy, when both the young mother and her three-year-old son were diagnosed with cancer. When Catherine told me about this, I could only say, shocked, “Dear God, that family needs grace.” She replied firmly, “That family needs casseroles,” and then proceeded to organize the entire neighborhood into bringing that family dinner, in shifts, every single night, for an entire year. I do not know if my sister fully recognizes that this is grace.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Recovering Leah knows fear stands for false expectations appearing real.

~ Christa Allan

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

~ Donna Clayton

Lore: Making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!

~ Wil Wheaton

It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.

~ R.a. Torrey

And now, I, Moroni, would speak somewhat concerning these things; I would show unto the world that faith is things which are hoped for and not seen; wherefore, dispute not because ye see not, for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. (Ether 12:4–6.)

~ Henry B. Eyring

I. All the distinctive characteristics of personality are ascribed to the Holy Spirit in the Bible.

~ R.a. Torrey

He said, “Americans look upon water as an inexhaustible resource. It’s not, if you’re mining it. Arizona is mining groundwater.

~ John Mcphee

Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.

~ Patrick Rhone

Every form of strength is also a form of weakness,” he once wrote. “Pretty girls tend to become insufferable because, being pretty, their faults are too much tolerated. Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them. I learned to write because I am one of those people who somehow cannot manage the common communications of smiles and gestures, but must use words to get across things that other people would never need to say.

~ Michael Lewis

God is in the résumé-building business. He is always using past experiences to prepare us for future opportunities.

~ Mark Batterson

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this

~ Daniel Abraham

Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and a willingness to act.

~ Sara Miles