An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of d...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE This is more than a success story. It is a dream come true.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je...
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
ADA HUXTABLE Superfluous curtains that needlessly cover glass would give Salome a lifetime supply of veils.
ADA HUXTABLE The New York Hilton is laid out with a competence that would make a computer blush.
ADA HUXTABLE The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.
ADA HUXTABLE In the random way that democracy scatters art and monuments among its leaders, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
ADA HUXTABLE Once benchmarks of civilization and style, these "gateways" to the cities were palaces of splendor a...
ADA HUXTABLE Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
ADA HUXTABLE An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awf...
ADA HUXTABLE The building is a national tragedy - a cross between a concrete candy box and a marble sarcophagus i...
ADA HUXTABLE Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is je...
ADA HUXTABLE Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 The basis of our Lord's appeal was ...
JOHN HUXTABLE I don't think the program costs are as high now.
KAREN HUXTABLE The goal is to have the schools adopt the program. They're not there yet.
KAREN HUXTABLE We not only meet, but exceed the standards. It's not a problem for us. We're really confident that w...
KAREN HUXTABLE The governor has proposed a budget that's $15 million short of what's needed to fund all school-base...
KAREN HUXTABLE This all falls under the undertaking of the total modernization of the hospital.
KAREN HUXTABLE The world was not supportive. They look at me as a joke for 13 to 14 years until I could prove feasi...
ADA YONATH I'm always having to get rid of reporters.
ADA YONATH From the age of 11, I was cleaning floors, washing dishes, making sandwiches and being a cashier. Su...
ADA YONATH The ribosome is a machine that gets instructions from the genetic code and operates chemically in or...
ADA YONATH I used ribosomes from very, very robust bacteria under very, very active conditions and found a way ...
ADA YONATH Words originating from the verb 'to die' were frequently used when I described my initial pl...
ADA YONATH There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depen...
ADA YONATH After I spent my compulsory army service in the 'top secret office' of the Medical Forces, w...
ADA YONATH I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two a...
ADA YONATH At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan t...
ADA YONATH My kindergarten teacher encouraged me to learn, as did my school headmaster, who gave me a grant to ...
ADA YONATH During my time I had some very difficult years, and I had very pronounced competition, all by men.
ADA YONATH Proteins are constantly being degraded. Therefore, simultaneous production of proteins is required.
ADA YONATH I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be...
ADA YONATH Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Aff...
ADA YONATH I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, b...
ADA YONATH I don't distinguish between men and women. This is irrelevant to me, and I don't think in th...
ADA YONATH It is a great honor for me to be able to express my sincere gratitude to the Nobel Foundation.
ADA YONATH I was described as a dreamer, a fantasist, even as the village idiot. I didn't care. What I care...
ADA YONATH If one has curiosity, then one stands the chance of attain a high level of scientific inquiry.
ADA YONATH I don't walk into the lab in the morning thinking, 'I am a woman, and I will carry out an ex...
ADA YONATH People are obsessed with my haircut; everyone wants to do something with my hair before the ceremony...
ADA YONATH The ideas which led to the Analytical Engine occurred in a manner wholly independent of any that wer...
ADA LOVELACE Those who incline to very strictly utilitarian views may perhaps feel that the peculiar powers of th...
ADA LOVELACE I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works...
ADA LOVELACE I have got a scheme to make a thing in the form of a horse with a steam engine in the inside so cont...
ADA LOVELACE I have my hopes, & very distinct ones, too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I ca...
ADA LOVELACE I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now se...
ADA LOVELACE Owing to some peculiarity in my nervous system, I have perception of some things, which no one else ...
ADA LOVELACE I am never so happy as when I am really engaged in good earnest, & it makes me must wonderfully ...
ADA LOVELACE I am much pleased to find how very well I stand work & how my powers of attention & continue...
ADA LOVELACE I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-e...
ADA LOVELACE Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen w...
ADA LOVELACE As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
ADA LOVELACE I shall, in due time, be a Poet.
ADA LOVELACE That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal, as time will show.
ADA LOVELACE Have all the hopes of ages come to naught? Is life no more with noble meaning fraught?
ADA CAMBRIDGE O what is life, if we must hold it thus as wind-blown sparks hold momentary fire?
ADA CAMBRIDGE Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law d...
ADA CAMBRIDGE You don't know a woman until you have a letter from her
ADA LEVERSON He seemed at ease and to have the look of the last gentleman in Europe.
ADA LEVERSON Everything comes to the man who won't wait
ADA LEVERSON She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night
ADA LEVERSON Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law d...
ADA CAMBRIDGE Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience mo...
ADA LEVERSON If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderf...
ADA TEIXEIRA DNA is a code of four letters; proteins are made up of amino acids which come in 20 forms. So the ri...
ADA YONATH Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly...
ADA LOVELACE The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and ...
ADA LOVELACE Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to us...
ADA LOVELACE ...there is so much beauty in the trying, and in the failing, and in the trying again.
ADA CALHOUN I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that not...
ADA LOVELACE I was rather foolish in saying that I did not like arithmetic and to learn figures when I did - I wa...
ADA LOVELACE We may say most aptly that the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard lo...
ADA LOVELACE People always talk about the implication and applications of a process, but for me, the goal is pure...
ADA YONATH A new, a vast, and a powerful language is developed for the future use of analysis, in which to wiel...
ADA LOVELACE I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
ADA YONATH Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!
ADA CAMBRIDGE Once, when I tried to calculate the height of the balcony, I broke my arm. Another time, I wanted to...
ADA YONATH I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be ...
ADA YONATH In the case of the Analytical Engine, we have undoubtedly to lay out a certain capital of analytical...
ADA LOVELACE The Analytical Engine does not occupy common ground with mere 'calculating machines.' It hol...
ADA LOVELACE The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know ...
ADA LOVELACE You don't know a woman until you have received a letter from her.
ADA LEVERSON It seems like everyone wants to come in February.
ADA SUMMERS Dating is poetry. Marriage is a novel. There are times, maybe years, that are all exposition.
ADA CALHOUN A lot of people don't realize (the church is here). They drive by here all the time.
ADA SUMMERS I figure people are good enough to donate it, it needs to be there for future relatives.
ADA SUMMERS No one comes to stone the servant when they could watch the execution of the king.
ADA PALMER As married people, we dwell on a spectrum between happy and unhappy, in love and out of love, and we...
ADA CALHOUN I don’t like boys.”
I shook my head. “That’s no impediment to them. Madame raised gentl...
ADA PALMER Predators need the right to tear out each other’s throats.
ADA PALMER I reached for her through the darkness, but she was gone. Like dominoes folding over, the rest of th...
ADA ADAMS My parents were Zionists born in Poland. My father was a rabbi who didn't know much about scienc...
ADA YONATH We now doubt Aristotle, understand Shakespeare only with footnotes.
ADA PALMER My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressi...
ADA YONATH The Weizmann Institute showed me respect and didn't require many administrative tasks, so I was ...
ADA YONATH For quite a while, I didn't receive a higher academic status. I didn't feel any discriminati...
ADA YONATH When a man sits in our jails for a number of years, and around him friends and family become angry, ...
ADA YONATH Anyone who sits in our jails who is not just a criminal but what we call a terrorist, with or withou...
ADA YONATH Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
ADA YONATH Many ribosomes act simultaneously along the mRNA, forming superstructures called polysomes.
ADA YONATH My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my consta...
ADA YONATH Problems should be solved by talking and not in an aggressive manner.
ADA YONATH The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the openi...
ADA CALHOUN People who don't marry miss both the pelting hardships of marriage and its warm rewards.
ADA CALHOUN All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles
and ghosts of men, and spirits
behind thos...
ADA LIMON Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN Food, in the end, in our own tradition, is something holy. It's not about nutrients and calories...
LOUISE FRESCO We'd all survive if Twitter shut down for a short while during major riots. Social media isn'...
LOUISE MENSCH The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countr...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER My business partner and make-up artist Kim Jacob and I have employed every member of staff, decided ...
LOUISE NURDING Age is just a number, and I know so many women who look fabulous at 40, 50 and 60 so it doesn't ...
LOUISE NURDING It's only a thought, and a thought can be changed.
LOUISE MAY To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...t...
LOUISE ERDRICH She did believe in God. And she believed that Jane was with him. And suddenly her pain and grief bec...
LOUISE PENNY Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude w...
LOUISE ERDRICH Of two sisters one is always the watcher, one the dancer.
LOUISE GLüCK Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH Since a time has come, Mademoiselle, when the severe laws of men no longer prevent women from applyi...
LOUISE LABé Golf is very much like a love affair, if you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it bre...
LOUISE SUGGS Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
LOUISE DRISCOLL But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.
LOUISE BOGAN Women have no wilderness in them. They are provident instead content in the tight hot cell of their ...
LOUISE BOGAN The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live i...
LOUISE BERNIKOW The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert him...
LOUISE BOGAN Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
LOUISE BEAL If you can't return a favor, pass it on.
LOUISE BROWN Because language is the carrier of ideas, it is easy to believe that it should be very little else t...
LOUISE BOGAN Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, ever...
LOUISE BERNIKOW People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.
LOUISE HAY What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable.
LOUISE NEVELSON Too many composers become involved in intellectual speculation which seems to matter more to them th...
LOUISE TALMA I just feel that I'm in tune with the right vibrations in the universe when I'm in the process of wo...
LOUISE NEVELSON Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS Most beautiful but dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on t...
LOUISE BROOKS I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange bea...
LOUISE BOGAN They were so strong in their beliefs that there came a time when it hardly mattered what exactly tho...
LOUISE ERDRICH I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside.
LOUISE NEVELSON Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.
LOUISE BOGAN I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admir...
MARIE LOUISE And whether it is equal pay, health care, Social Security, or family leave, this Congress has refuse...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I ca...
LOUISE MENSCH My mother is Turtle Mountain Chippewa, and she lived on her home reservation. My father taught there...
LOUISE ERDRICH I think it's one of my favourite theatres ever, so quirky and wonderful and steeped in history. ...
LOUISE JAMESON This House cannot function without an open, accountable, and independent ethics process; and the mol...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Stupidity always accompanies evil. Or evil, stupidity.
LOUISE BOGAN Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical a...
LOUISE HART The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
LOUISE HART Our food is safer and our diets are more diverse than ever before; production methods are becoming i...
LOUISE FRESCO Contraceptives have a proven track record of enhancing the health of women and children, preventing ...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I really believe less is more. When you get older, too much makeup can be ageing, and when you'r...
LOUISE NURDING My grandfather was a persuasive man who made friends with people at every level of influence. In ord...
LOUISE ERDRICH For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a b...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Very little is needed to make a happy life, he said.
LOUISE ERDRICH Space is something that you have to define. Otherwise, it is like anxiety, which is too vague. A fea...
LOUISE BOURGEOIS To be honest, the only thing I ever really wanted to be was a writer - since I read 'Charlotte&#...
LOUISE PENNY The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and ret...
LOUISE BROWN I'm not somebody who likes to show off my cleavage, and I don't dress up for the papers.
LOUISE NURDING Let's clean up our environment. Let's clean up our bodies, but most importantly, let's n...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I actually had the pleasure of meeting David Bowie at his 50th birthday party in New York City. I ha...
LOUISE POST To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted.

But what happened t...
LOUISE PENNY When small towns find they cannot harm the strangest of their members, when eccentrics show resilien...
LOUISE ERDRICH Normally death came at night, taking a person in their sleep, stopping their heart or tickling them ...
LOUISE PENNY If Marion Hawthorne doesn't watch out, she's going to grow up into a lady Hitler.
LOUISE FITZHUGH As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a...
LOUISE NURDING Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-a...
LOUISE PENNY Rove and his attorneys can parse the words all they want, but it is now clear that while Rove may no...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government,...
LOUISE SLAUGHTER I love Spanish cities, particularly Barcelona, Madrid and Palma, which has the most amazing cathedra...
LOUISE NURDING My son Beau got very ill when he was just four months old in Majorca. He contracted a really bad cas...
LOUISE NURDING Much of my reading time over the last decade and a half has been spent reading aloud to my children....
LOUISE BROWN I think all great innovations are built on rejections.
LOUISE NEVELSON As I saw it,
all my mother's life, my father
held her down, like
lead strapped to ...
LOUISE GLüCK Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and being alone won't either, for solitude wi...
LOUISE ERDRICH Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude...
LOUISE ERDRICH Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence...
LOUISE ERDRICH To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...
LOUISE ERDRICH For me, this is old. I probably know what is happening better than he does because I've tried over a...
LOUISE ERDRICH To fly from one tree to another, the raven hangs itself, hawklike, on the air. I hang myself that sa...
LOUISE ERDRICH ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as h umbel as the spider's, what is bea...
LOUISE ERDRICH The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.
LOUISE ERDRICH Coming down off the trail, I am lost in my own thoughts and unprepared when a bear chugs across the ...
LOUISE ERDRICH Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour ...
LOUISE ERDRICH When we’re young, we think we are the only species worth knowing. But the more I come to know peop...
LOUISE ERDRICH And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let y...
LOUISE ERDRICH ...which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beau...
LOUISE ERDRICH Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were co...
LOUISE ERDRICH In our own beginnings, we are formed out of the body's interior landscape, For a short while, our m...
LOUISE ERDRICH