"All the steps of knowledge, carry you further on the same plane, but could never raise you one foot above your ancient level of earth; whereas the very first step in power is a flight, is an ascending movement into another element where earth is forgotten." 1848 Test
“Why do beautiful songs make you sad? Because they aren’t true. Never? Nothing is beautiful and true” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Johnathan Safran Foer
“Every moment you’ve spend studying essay types and essay structure has been a lesson in how a message is effectively communicated to an audience” - B. McDaniel
"But should I ascribe any of these things unto myself, or my sexly weakness, I were not worthy to live, and of all most unworthy of the mercies I have received at God’s hands, but to God only and wholly all is given and ascribed." Practice test #2- Queen Elizabeth
"And one should be vigilant that they not get to make decisions upon which the lives of others depend." Is torture ever justified?- Charles Krauthammer
"At a time when the external happening has become largely meaningless and our reaction to it brutalized, when we shout "Jump" to the man on the ledge." One Night on a Farm in Kansas- Conrad Knickerbocker
"The proof is in the emotions- amusement, amazement, awe- evoked by those images of a tiny human figure balanced above the void." Man on Wire- A. O. Scott