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“Make no mistake about it, you are dumb. You're a group of incredibly, well-educated dumb people. I was there. We all were there. You're barely functional. There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups, but the screw-ups, they're a-coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.”
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“Develop your own compass, and trust it. Take risks, dare to fail, remember the first person through the wall always gets hurt.”
Source : Aaron Sorkin's Commencement Address at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012. 
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“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011
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“Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?”
Source : A.M. Homes (2012). “May We Be Forgiven”, p.114, Granta Books
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“I've got heaps of dreams.”
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“For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.”
Source : Donald A. Nield, Adrian Bejan (2012). “Convection in Porous Media”, p.135, Springer Science & Business Media
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“The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.”
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“Monumental is not a matter of size.”
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“Parenting cannot just be one size fits all.”
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“I thought I knew Texas pretty well, but I had no notion of its size until I campaigned it.”
