"Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you."

“We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated.”

Source : Sir Henry Bessemer (1905). “Sir Henry Bessemer, F.R.S.: An autobiography”

“Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children”

Source : "Greens Need to Grasp the Nettle: Aren't There Just Too Many People?". www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.

“I have siblings. And there are certain things I know that I can push their buttons. And they know they have certain things where they can push mine.”

“Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.”

“In Germany it's impossible to go bankrupt for medical bills, because even if you are bankrupt, ... the social solidarity system pays for your medical bills. The idea is, if you do have financial problems and a lot of worries for other reasons, you do not need to have another burden in not being able to pay medical bills.”

“Many other countries that Canada competes with, fashion is part of their culture, whether it be the U.K. or Italy. They get a lot of support from the government. I think that's going to be required here in Canada, if we ever want to truly get behind the creativity that is here in this country.”

Source : Source: www.realstylenetwork.com

“Love is a strange fact - it hopes all things, believes all things, endures all things. It makes no sense at all.”

Source : Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.32, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

“joy and sorrow are inseparable. . . together they come and when one sits alone with you . . remember that the other is asleep upon your bed.”