"Men are imposible, but after you've had one around nothing ever has quite the flavor without one. It's terrible, really. When they're there you want to shoot them and when they're not you want to shoot yourself."

“If we ask for more and more material for the construction, i.e. more and more choice, we're likely to end up with a lot of combinations that don't do much for us or are far more complex than they need to be.”

“My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.”

“Well, we all are what we are, I guess you might say by an accident of birth.”

“We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that.”

“We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.”

“History tells us what people do; historical fiction helps us imagine how they felt.”

“Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must lament the loss of infancy, or early manhood the passing of youth. Life's race-course is fixed; Nature has only a single path and that path is run but once, and to each stage of existence has been allotted its own appropriate quality; so that the weakness of childhood, the impetuosity of youth, the seriousness of middle life, the maturity of old age.. each bears some of Nature's fruit, which must be garnered in its own season.”

“I always thought I was a little shy, especially compared to my brother and my sister, but I guess I was always the kid doing performances in the front room.”

Source : "Linda Cardellini’s Return". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 10, 2012.