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“I've always been homeschooled, so doing it on set is kind of the same thing. My mom makes it very interactive - we'll get a book on chocolate and learn how to make it, or she will buy antique items. I love military history, the mechanics and strategy of it.”
Source : "A Day Out With The Middle Kids". Interview with Ingela Ratledge, www.tvguide.com. February 8, 2012. 
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“People in the world can never imagine the length of days to those in asylums. They seemed never ending, and we welcomed any event that might give us something to think about as well as talk of.”
Source : Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.69, Nellie Bly
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“A baited cat may grow as fierce as a lyon.”
Source : "Moral Essays on Some of the Most Curious and Significant English, Scotch, and Foreign Proverbs".
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“The mistake the world is making with the simple peoples is to try and hurry them into political concepts they don't understand and aren't prepared to cope with. I know. I am a peasant myself. ... I say, Spit on the big, fancy schemes. I want all the little things first. Then perhaps we can get on to the bigger things.”
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“If there's a seminal discovery in oncology in the last 20 years, it's that idea that cancer genes are often mutated versions of normal genes.”
Source : "An Oncologist Writes 'A Biography Of Cancer'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 17, 2010.
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“I think gardens are fantastic, and I'd love to draw and design and stuff like that. I love just planting flowers during the summer. There's something very humble about it, and natural and beautiful.”
Source : Interview with Seventeen Magazine, www.seventeen.com. May 22, 2009.
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“Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book, not yourself.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“I wanted no part of politics. And I wasn't in Berlin to compete against any one athlete. The purpose of the Olympics, anyway, was to do your best. As I'd learned long ago from Charles Riley, the only victory that counts is the one over yourself.”
Source : Jesse Owens, Paul G. Neimark (1978). “Jesse, a spiritual autobiography”
