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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
― Albert Einstein

“If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.”
― Albert Einstein

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
― Albert Einstein

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
― Albert Einstein

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”
― Albert Einstein

“Never memorize something that you can look up.”
― Albert Einstein

“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
― Albert Einstein

“A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
― Albert Einstein

“This is an awful thing that’s happened to you, but it’s also presenting you with a rare opportunity. You have the chance to rebuild yourself from the ground up, to make a completely fresh start.”
― Gordon Korman, Restart

“Once you're certain about something, you no longer question it. And if you don't question what you think you know, then you'll only ever see the big things and TOAST is worthless to you."
"Let me get this straight," she replied. "You're saying that big things, like everybody believing something, block the important details from view.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“If you trust me with a secret, that means you trust my judgment with regard to the information. Not that you get to dictate that judgment for me. (Agent Marcus Rivers)”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“Nerds really do make the world go round.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“Okay,” Rivers replied. “Maybe I wasn't supposed to say anything about that. Just act surprised when they tell you.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“I could
just imagine the funeral, with my FBI instructor saying, “I told him not
to antagonize his captor.” And Margaret shaking her head and
responding, “And I told him not to go behind the Safeway.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“TOAST’ stands for the Theory of All Small
Things.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“a chain is only as strong as its weakest link”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“How did you know that?” she demanded. “Did you just TOAST me
again?”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“THERE ARE SOME THINGS, LIKE breathing and walking, that you do
automatically. And since you don’t really think about them, they’re hard
to teach. For example, how would you teach somebody to breathe?
Would you make up a list of step-by-step instructions?
1. Suck air through nose
2. Blow air back through nose
3. Repeat twenty thousand times every day”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“Don’t feel bad. He does that to everyone. You just got TOASTed.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“I’m incomplete. Like a book with the first chapter torn out.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“When I landed on the mat, the image that ran through my head was that of my mother slamming dough against the counter when she makes homemade pizza.”
― James Ponti, Framed!

“For the second time in less than fifteen minutes, Kat’s words had silenced the room.
Monty laughed and said, “For someone who never talks, you sure know what to say.”
Kat smiled wryly and answered, “I pick my moments.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“The Bodleian’s a highly secure building.”
“That was built when the cutting edge of security was a moat and a man with a pointy stick,” Monty said with a laugh.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“You call that a sound system?” asked Sydney. “It’s a cassette player. It’s from the 1900s.”
“Yeah, well, so am I,” Monty replied.”
― James Ponti, Golden Gate

“If this had been a public-school locker room, there would have been some gray jumbo-sized garbage cans nearby, and I probably could've taken care of cleanup by myself. But apparently the girls of St. Andrew's don't throw anything away, because all they had was a tiny wastebasket and some recycling bins. There were bins for paper, plastic, and glass, but none for rotting corpses. Go figure.”
― James Ponti, Dead City

“I've never had much luck with New Year's resolutions. Last year I only lasted three days before realizing I couldn't survive without junk food. And the year before that, when my sister and I promised not to argue anymore, we didn't even make it to the end of my dad's New Year's Eve party. I'll spare you the gory details, but fruit punch and guacamole were involved. So was dry cleaning.”
― James Ponti, Blue Moon