Aprition Quotes & Sayings

I think that black Africa is extremely terrifying. Black Africa can become a maelstrom of warring tribes without the outside world needing to feel the need to do anything about it. — John Keegan

It hit me like a thunderbolt! — Rio Ferdinand

When we turn to one another for counsel we reduce the number of our enemies. — Khalil Gibran

What this committee needs, what this media center needs, is a good dose of Jeeves."
"I'm sorry," said Mr. Peabody, a mathematics lecturer who sat hunched at the far end of the table taking the minutes. "How do you spell that?"
"Is it possible," said Arthur, raising both his shoulders and his voice, "that we are working in a university where lecturers are not aware of the identity of one Reginald Jeeves, the gentleman's personal gentleman and the personal gentleman's gentleman? What has happened to cultural literacy, my fellow members of the Advisory Committee for the Media Center? This sort of ignorance is exactly what needs addressing. What I mean, Mr. Peabody, when I say that we need a dose of Jeeves, is that we need quiet and reasoned wisdom that leads to prompt and directed action. — Charlie Lovett

As disabled people, we are taught from a young age that those who are attracted to us are to be regarded with suspicion. — Stella Young

What you seek is close by and rises to meet you. — Friedrich Holderlin

I secretly want to raise my hand and say, introvert in the building! — Krista Ritchie

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also so much more than that. So are we all. — James Baldwin

Magic is magic. It isn't good or bad in and of itself. It's the intent that matters. Ideally, you treat magic as a gift and you use it to influence natural forces to help and to heal. It's a positive act. — Dani Harper

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough. — Catherynne M Valente

When crime drops dramatically in New York for no apparent reason, or when a movie made on a shoestring budget ends up making hundreds of millions of dollars - we're surprised. I'm saying, don't be surprised. This is the way social epidemics work. — Malcolm Gladwell

George Stigler was a delightful correspondent. In a letter from London in 1948, after remarking on the inconvertibility of the pound and the inedible, still-rationed food, he concluded, So here I am losing weight and gaining pounds. — Milton Friedman

Art-making is not about telling the truth but making the truth felt — Christian Boltanski