I have a backlog of quotes…none of these are from yesterday’s Read-a-thon! Look for those over the next 2 weeks. I actually found the last 3 quotes in a stack of old papers.  They’re from before I officially started collecting quotes.

“What, you don’t think I want my wife to be happy?” – Taub
“Sure, as long as it makes you happy.” – Foreman, House episode “Black Hole”

“I’ve always believed that if you took one tenth the energy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you’d be surprised by how well things can work out.” – Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, p. 138

“You’re in for it now, child. Your body will change, your thoughts will be jumbled, and any man will be able to do what he wants with you.” - about the onset of puberty, Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, p. 45

“Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.” – Last Lecture by Randy Pausch, p. 148

“He missed his venerable master, who had marked him forever with a thirst for knowledge as persistent as the drunk’s thirst for alcohol or the ambitious man’s thirst for power.” – Daughter of Fortune b y Isabel Allende, p. 178

“From where I stood, all my female friends were skinnier, or brighter, more talented and definitely happier than me.” – Amen, Amen, Amen by Abby Sher, p. 196

“Neither European nor Chinese patients admitted that the other race had anything to teach them.” – Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende, p. 181

“The heart wants what it wants.” – Woody Allen

“And this I believe: that hte free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.” – East of Eden by John Steinbeck, p. 171-172

“Eventually, I sold the original to the Hard Rock Cafe, not only because I needed a little money, but because I was afraid that, if I would die, it would be put on the street, like all stuff is put on the street when people die, in a black plastic bag.  Now it was safe.” – AJ’s neighbor, Nancy quoted in The Year of Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs, p. 325