Ignorant Historian

Life’s about More than Skiing

Posted in Academic Pursuits and tagged with Quote on March 21, 2010

When asked about the death of a friend and fellow skier: “Just reminds me that it’s all about skiing…nothing else.” – Julia Mancuso, US alpine skier

“It is in conflict that our values are exposed.” – Genesis by Bernard Beckett, p. 88

“You fight dirty.”
“I fight like a girl.” – Shadow Puppets by Orson Scott Card, p. 12

“You can’t call it a flaw…this is the way they were designed.” – Captain Janeway, Star Trek Voyager, “Prototype”

” ‘There needs to be nothing special about the match that lights the fire,’ was their motto, ‘save that it is the match that lights the fire.’ ” – Genesis by Bernard Beckett, p. 13

“Is it a name that lets someone know they’re going to be different?” – Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern, p. 2

“Kids drained everything but blood from you, their maturation feeding off molecules siphoned directly from the nearest adult in charge.” – Murderer’s Daughters by Randy Susan Meyers, p. 227

“I don’t think anyone really intends to die for what they want, for their cause. Somewhere in their mind they think they’ll survive.” – 13th Hour by Richard Doetsch, p. 201

“I sob partly because of the ending of Elsewhere, but mostly because, as I put it so eloquently to my dad, ‘I don’t want to be a nerd.’ ” – Into the Wild Nerd Yonder by Julie Halpern, p. 132

“Khadija is always frightened of something and this time it was about having a daughter.” – The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad, p. 252

“That is what it is. We can’t change it. We just have to decide how we’ll respond. We cannot chnage the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.” – The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch, p. 32 (large print edition)