With this humble instrumentality did it please Providence to prepare the theatre for those events by which a new dispensation of liberty was to be communicated to man. – Edward Everett
Great scientific discoveries have been made by men seeking to verify quite erroneous theories about the nature of things. – Aldous Huxley, "Wordsworth in the Tropics"
He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking. – Kyra Sedgwick
It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness — calling their denial knowledge. – George Eliot
I decided that, if I were to write a teen series, Id want to set it in a place that was familiar to me – Manhattan, where Id grown up – and Id model the characters on myself and my friends. – Cecily von Ziegesar
