"If I memorize enough stuff, I can get a good grade."

“Criticism, as it was first instituted by Aristotle, was meant as a standard of judging well; the chiefest part of which is to observe those excellencies which delight a reasonable reader.”

“Lichtenberg ... held something of the following kind: one should neither affirm the existence of God nor deny it. ... It is not that he wished to leave certain perspectives open, nor to please everyone. It is rather that he was identifying himself, for his part, with a consciousness of self, of the world, and of others that was "strange" (the word is his) in a sense which is equally well destroyed by the rival explanations.”

“It breaks your heart when you throw something away, but it's what left that counts. It's like worrying about the bits of rock you have knocked off in order to make a beautiful statue. You've wasted half the rock, yeah, but it's the Venus di Milo!”

“You owe me nothing, but I want everything.”

Source : Anne Fortier (2012). “Juliet (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.130, Ballantine Books

“I still think of my mum as being kind of a dork - a cooler one, but still a dork.”

Source : "Georgia May Jagger" by Derek Blasberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

“I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!”

“Shoes must have very high heels and platforms to put women's beauty on a pedestal.”

“After you have been unfair to him he will love you again, but he will never afterwards be quite the same boy. No one ever gets over the first unfairness; no one except Peter.”