Megan McCafferty Quotes

Graphene is dead; long live graphene.

I feel that all good art is powerful and simple.

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything.

I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout of the bad thing, when people are already damaged. I'm less interested in seeing people when they're fine and following their journey to becoming damaged.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

Everyone with a cell phone thinks they're a photographer. Everyone with a laptop thinks they're a journalist. But they have no training, and they have no idea of what we keep to in terms of standards, as in what's far out and what's reality. And they have no dedication to truth.

I don't have a computer - I don't like to get into it that much 'cause it can screw with your head a little.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

I've permitted myself to learn and to fail with some regularity. And that is probably the one thing I was given, and that I'm still grateful for.

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.

I love listening to classical music.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Here's the secret to weight loss: It's all about crowding out, not cutting out.

You might be the funniest guy in the world, but if you don't have anything to talk about, people are eventually going to gravitate towards the guy that's actually saying something.

When the Temple was destroyed, the Jewish people faced a crisis unlike any other in its history. For centuries, the sacrificial system had served as the primary medium of atonement before the Almighty.

Now it is time to turn to an older wisdom that, while respecting material comfort and security as a basic right of all, also recognises that many of the most valuable things in life cannot be measured.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Please remember we all come from the same one and we will all return to that one, so there is no reason for fighting.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

Make definite assertions. Avoid tame, colorless, hesitating, non-committal language.