All Quotes

“If there were any doubts, I think that they should be put to bed. Talking about the Apple Watch,”

“The things we should be doing at Apple are things that others can’t. bloomberg.com”

“Justicia sin misericordia es crueldad”

“La inconstancia es un pecado especial de la prudencia”

“Me han sido reveladas semejantes cosas que lo que he escrito me parece paja”

“Here is the house. It is green and white. It has a red door. It is very pretty. The Bluest Eye (1969) First lines”

“There is really nothing more to say”

“Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about "us"; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us. Commencement address at Barnard College (May 1979) as quoted in Ms. magazine”

“At some point in life the world 's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough. No record of it needs to be kept and you don't need someone to share it with or tell it to. When that happens”

“Was there anything so loathsome as a wilfully innocent man? Hardly. An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul air of his innocence, even if it did wilt rows of angel trumpets and cause them to fall from their vines. Tar Baby”

“Writing to me is an advanced and slow form of reading. If you find a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. Morrison said this in her talk at the annual meeting of the Ohio Arts Council in Cincinnati in September 1981. Variants, unsourced: If there's a book you really want to read but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”

“If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.”

“Black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men. Black Women Writers at Work (1983) by Claudia Tate”

“The fully realized presence of the haunting is both a major incumbent of the narrative and sleight of hand. One of its purposes is to keep the reader preoccupied with the nature of the incredible spirit world while being supplied a controlled diet of the incredible political world. … Here I wanted the compelling confusion of being there as they (the characters) are; suddenly, without comfort or succor from the”

“All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. As quoted in Grace Notes (1989) by Rita Dove”

“For it is now quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens. J. L. E. Dreyer (ed.) Tychonis Brahe opera omnia , vol. 3, p. 111, ll. 17”

“Simplicibus itaque verbis gaudet Mathematica Veritas, cum etiam per se simplex sit Veritatis oratio. Mathematical Truth therefore rejoices in simple words, since the language of Truth is itself simple.”

“Epistolarum astronomicarum liber primus (1596) in Tychonis Brahe opera omnia , vol. 6, p. 23, l. 32”

“An astronomer must be cosmopolitan because ignorant statesmen can not be expected to value their services. An Itinery written by Fynes Morrison , &c. (London, 1617) fol., p. 60, quoted in J. L. E. Dreyer, Tycho Brahe (Edinburgh, 1890) p. 261.”

“Those who study the stars have God for a teacher. Reported in Bob Perlongo, The Everyday Almanac , 2nd ed. (1995 [1979]) p. 15”

“Let me not seem to have lived in vain. Last words, in Dreyer (1890) p. 386.”

“I have studied all things celestial, and now I know the heavens as if they were my own backyard.”

“Now it is clear to me that the new star is not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, but a star shining in the firmament.”

“O God, I am a great sinner, but I have never doubted Thy mercy.”

“The mind of man is quick to see the errors of others, yet slow to recognize its own.”

“I thought Bolt was amazing, I mean, beating the world record and slowing down at the end, how galling has that got the for the other athletes? I never managed to do anything in 9.69 seconds, it took me ten seconds to watch him do that. Frankie Boyle , Mock The Week”

“I don't think limits. I think it's all about how bad you want it.”

“To be the best, you have to work hard and believe in yourself.”

“I train hard, but I also know when to have fun.”

“Records are made to be broken.”