Agbeli Man Quotes & Sayings

The world is sick of big IT things that don't work. — Tony Scott

Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: 'Stop vamping.' It has remained a caution. — Adam Ross

Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. — Maria Montessori

Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle. — Samuel P. Huntington

a good vocabulary helps the reader understand the context of the message. — Jonathan Wallace

What a strange girl you are." "Why?" "Flung out of space," Carol said. — Patricia Highsmith

I intend to live forever, or die trying. — Groucho Marx

I want to look darkness in the eye and not be afraid. I want to feel the resonance of history and all the bad things people have done and try to understand why. I want to stand inside the Colosseum, feel the vibrations of so much death and despair. I want to walk the corridors of Columbine High. I want to touch the walls of Auschwitz. — Kathy Charles

It is a wealthy person, indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends. — Jim Stovall

She used to read us Where The Wild Things Are, which i loved, because Max was a bad little fucker and i always respected that. — James W. Fuerst

He was a soldier. He was a fucking veteran when it came to pillaging pussies. — Amelia Hutchins

I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel. — Alexandra Paul

To be any sort of competent writer one must keep one's psychological distance from the supreme artists. — Cynthia Ozick

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it. — Melina Marchetta