"Do you know that if you take the books in an average school library and stretched out all those words into a single line, the line would go all the way around the world? Actually, I made that up, but doesn't it sound like it should be true?"

“It is difficult to be king when the gods are changing.”

“Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.”

Source : Clive Ponting (1990). “Secrecy in Britain”

“When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.”

Source : "Best Quotes from Kerry Washington's and Stephen Colbert's Graduation Speeches" by Vi-An Nguyen, parade.com. May 20, 2013.

“I remember one occasion when I tried to add a little seasoning to a review, but I wasn't allowed to. The paper was by Dorothy Maharam, and it was a perfectly sound contribution to abstract measure theory. The domains of the underlying measures were not sets but elements of more general Boolean algebras, and their range consisted not of positive numbers but of certain abstract equivalence classes. My proposed first sentence was: "The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces."”

“Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.”

Source : John Bertram Phillips (1964). “Your God is too small”, Scribner Paper Fiction

“Teamwork is the glue which binds losers together”

“O most glorious God ... Direct my thoughts, words and work, wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the Lamb, and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit.... Daily frame me more and more into the likeness of thy Son Jesus Christ.... Thou gavest thy Son to die for me, and hast given me assurance of salvation....”

“The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing.”