"You don’t create a diamond by rubbing it with fluffy bunny slippers. You need to apply pressure and heat. There are enough air-headed cheerleaders out there. We need more drill sergeants."

“I went to college for about a year in California.”

“That's Becks. Always ready to offer a helping headshot.”

“Think of something finite molded into the infinite, and you think of man.”

Source : "Dialogue on Poetry and Literary Aphorisms" by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, translated by Ernst Behler and Roman Struc, 1968.

“To give up another person's love is a mild suicide; like a very bad inoculation as compared to the full disease.”

“Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.”

“It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin

“Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God.”

“Sometimes the picture is more interesting than what is going on. Sometimes the picture is suggestive of greater things in society or the history of what might be connected to the theme in the pictures and those are worth exploring.”