"Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple."

“This was once a land where every sane person knew how to build a shelter, grow food, and entertain one another. Now we have been rendered permanent children. It’s the architects of forced schooling who are responsible for that.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto (2017). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.79, New Society Publishers

“Unless in communicating with it one says exactly what one means, trouble is bound to result.”

Source : B. E. Carpenter, Alan Mathison Turing, Michael Woodger (1986). “A.M. Turing's ACE report of 1946 and other papers”, The MIT Press

“I was the law and order.”

“At all events there is in Brooklyn something that makes me feel at home.”

“I'm taking one thing at a time. With the children and launching my solo career it would drive me to a nervous breakdown if I tried to organise a wedding on top of that.”

“Really, I don't care if people think I'm too skinny. This is my body. If they don't like it, screw it.”

Source : "Ellen Pompeo In ‘Self’: Went Up To Size 26 Jeans While Pregnant". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 18, 2010.

“Drink lots of water, get lots of sleep, and take vitamin C!”

Source : "Phoebe Tonkin chats to Georgia May Jagger and Camilla Franks". Interview with Phoebe Tonkin, vogue.com.au. April 12, 2013.

“Because teachers, no matter how kind, no matter how friendly, are sadistic and evil to the core.”

Source : Heather Brewer (2007). “The chronicles of Vladimir Tod: eighth grade bites”