"Success of life depends upon keeping one's mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes."

“An unlimited future. Isn't that what America is all about?”

“I love making object form; I wish I was doing more of it. I admire the research of my colleagues, and sometimes it makes me sad when their beautiful work - the deep dives into formal research and nuances of geometry and so on - ends up circling in more and more circumscribed contexts. I wish they were more powerful. It's not a modern proposition. Active form doesn't kill object form. I want my students to have all those skills related to geometry, shape, measure, scale, etc., plus skills for using space to manipulate power in the world.”

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“My first endeavor was to save the core of the German system of justice: the independent judiciary.”

“Believe me, I'm not going to try to get into testing.”

“Made this card especially for you because today's a special day, I wanted it to be wonderful I wanted it to say, hope everything you wish for, comes true on this your birthday.”

“The humour of the Chinese people in inventing gunpowder and finding its best use in making firecrackers for their grandfathers' birthdays is merely symbolical of their inventiveness along merely pacific lines.”

“Ready-to-wear is what I've wanted to do since the beginning. ... I'm not a girl who spends my life in a ballgown”

“Thorne blinked at her, then down at the sewage he could barely make out in the darkness. "Don't you have some tool in that fancy hand of yours that can get us across?" Cinder glared, light-headed from her body's instinctively short breaths. "Oh, wow, how could I have forgotten about my grappling hook?”