""As the crow flies" - a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line."

“Companies do not do new things because they understand it but because they feel it.”

“The mistake we make is when we seek to be loved instead of loving.”

“Consciousness in the individual is that area where the totality of life is located.”

“When you pose for a photograph, it's behind a smile that isn't yours. You are angry and hungry and alive. What I value in you is that intensity. I want to make portraits as intense as people.”

“Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise.”

“The perennial conviction that those who work hard and play by the rules will be rewarded with a more comfortable present and a stronger future for their children faces assault from just about every direction. That great enemy of democratic capitalism, economic inequality, is real and growing.”

Source : "Keeping the Dream Alive" by Jon Meacham, content.time.com. June 21, 2012.

“I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader. - Claire Danvers”

“Wine intoxicates for a time, but the end is bitterness.”