"A book must be an ice-axe to break the sea frozen inside us"

- Kafka

 

"nothing measurable matters"

- e. e. cummings

 

"An empty mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."

-Plutarch

"I think Crab, my dog, be the sourest-natured dog that lives."

- Wm. Shakespeare in Two Gentlemen of Verona

 

Every year in the US, 625 people are struck by lightning.

The tentacles of the giant Arctic jellyfish can reach 120 feet (36.6 meters) in length

 

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

 

-William Butler Yeats