Anne Wilkes Quotes & Sayings

Understanding comes through communication, and through communication we find the way to peace. — Ralph C. Smedley

Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate. — Anne Wilkes Tucker

I pick up a copy of Newsweek on the plane and immediately notice how biased, slanted, and opinionated all the U.S. newsmagazine articles are. Not that the Euro and British press aren't biased as well
they certainly are
but living in the United States we are led to believe, and are constantly reminded, that our press is fair and free of bias. After such a short time away, I am shocked at how obviously and blatantly this lie is revealed
there is the 'reporting' that is essentially parroting what the White House press secretary announces; the myriad built-in assumptions that one ceases to register after being somewhere else for a while. The myth of neutrality is an effective blanket for a host of biases. — David Byrne

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go out and greet those wonderful creatures and say a few nice words in a language invented by Tolkein. I've practiced, but I sound like Chewbacca making a New Year's speech. — Nina George

The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths / of exquisite interrelationships / of the awesome machinery of nature — Carl Sagan

Really, what I try to instill in my fans is to be healthy and happy. I have no desire to be super-skinny. — Kelly Clarkson

Knowledge can never replace friendship. I prefer to be an idiot! — Patrick Star

I hate people who talk about themselves, as you do, when one wants to talk about oneself, as I do. — Oscar Wilde

In any moving forward, there is always a leaving behind. — Sallirae Henderson

The rich people are doing well but regular people suffer. We'll all be better off when we realize that we're part of one big family. — CeCe Winans

The coach's main job is 20 percent technical and 80 percent inspirational. — Franz Stampfl

This book's title, Rough Beauty , conveys Anderson's conviction that the hard scrabble lives of most of the residents of Vidor, Texas, are worthy of our attention, but it also conveys that he does not seek to beautify their lives by removing the crude edges. — Anne Wilkes Tucker

We create models to explain nature, but the models wind up gatecrashing nature and driving away the original inhabitants. — David Mitchell