"I never dreamed of being a flagbearer. Every athlete has a wish to get to the Olympic Games. I had that wish, but to carry the flag of your country is doubly thrilling."

“The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.”

Source : EDWIN MUIR (1960). “COLLECTED POEMS”

“My pops is doing 120 years, I have friends doing life, I have ***** in the grave.”

“Leading women, if they are to offer variations from the present companies of leading men, need to be drawn from a wide spectrum of household and family arrangements. If women with children and family responsibilities are almost always seriously limited by these, then those currently in power will not have the personal experience necessary to represent these overlooked areas.”

Source : Eva Cox (1996). “Leading Women”

“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”

“Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.”

“The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.”

Source : Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.241, Transaction Publishers

“When AIDS was at its most brutal, frightening, my-God-what-are-we-going-to-do era, that was when vampire stories and stories about blood and trust swept the literary world.”

Source : Boston Phoenix Interview with Tamara Wieder, February 11, 2005.

“It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.”