448 Area Quotes & Sayings

When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous! — Wally Schirra

Seriously, who really cares how long the Nile river is, or who was the first to discover cheese? How is memorizing that ever going to help anyone? Instead, we need to give kids projects that allow them to exercise their minds and discover things for themselves. — Aaron Swartz

The lesson we are indebted to Egypt for, our future generations learned that in the face of oppression silence is never golden. — Aysha Taryam

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. — Michel De Montaigne

I never lost a freestyle race. Never. Not even in the YMCA. — Johnny Weissmuller

As he played it off to Nat, Archy knew - felt, like the baby-shaped ache in his left arm - that neither his ability nor his willingness to care for Rolando English for an hour, a day, a week, had anything whatsoever to do with his willingness or ability to be a father to the forthcoming child now putting the finishing touches on its respiratory and endocrine systems in the dark laboratory of his wife's womb. Wiping — Michael Chabon

My hobbies are reading, writing, listening to music and dancing. — Lailah Gifty Akita