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“Imagine a school-boy who has outgrown his clothes. Imagine the repairs made on the vestments where the enlarged frame had burst the narrow limits of the enclosure. Imagine the additions made where the projecting limbs had fairly and far emerged beyond the confines of the garment. Imagine the boy still growing, and the clothes, mended allover, now more than ever in want of mending-such is chemistry, and such is nomenclature.”
Source : "Chemical Recreations" by John Joseph Griffin, 7th Edition, (p. 189), 1834.
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“On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it is for the Republicans to eliminate this law. They have no real alternative. They're afraid to take away health care from the 20 million people who now have it.”
Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
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“Venture capitalists are professional money managers. We are provided capital to invest as long as we can return it to our investors with a strong return in a reasonable amount of time. A strong return is three times cash on cash. A reasonable amount of time is ten years max.”
Source : "Can the Crowd Be More Patient" by Fred Wilson, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012. 
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“I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.”
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“The great object to be attained through the observance of Arbor Day is the cultivation of a love for nature among children, with the confident expectation that thereby the needless de-struction of the forests will be stayed, and the improvement of grounds about school buildings and residences will be promoted.”
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“I need to think about 'Make sure you drink your water.' That's the kind of person I am.”
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“No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.”
Source : Nancy Pearl (2009). “More Book Lust: Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason”, p.12, Sasquatch Books
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“When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.”
Source : John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books
