Arnall Foundation Quotes & Sayings

Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room. — Julia Green

It is doubtful whether the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power-power to oppress others. — Eric Hoffer

Rusty thinks I should smoke marijuana, and I did for a while, but it only makes me giggle. — Truman Capote

What joy when the insouciant
armadillo glances at us and doesn't
quicken his trotting
across the track into the palm brush.
What is this joy? That no animal
falters, but knows what it must do? — Denise Levertov

Economists agree that all taxes potentially detract from the ability of markets to allocate resources efficiently, and the least inefficient types of taxation are those that are simple, uniform, and predictable, which allow businesses to plan and invest around them. The U.S. tax code is exactly the opposite. While nominal corporate tax rates in the United States are much higher than in other developed countries, very few American corporations actually pay taxes at that rate, because they have negotiated special exemptions and benefits for themselves. — Francis Fukuyama

What I am primarily is a neurogeneticist: I use genetics to study problems in neurobiology. The one problem I study primarily ... understanding of the sense of touch. — Martin Chalfie

Let the punishment fit the crime. — W.S. Gilbert

The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out. — Joel Edgerton

Sometimes it's hard to see past our own broken pieces. — Cora Carmack

Finding a programmer to work with if you don't already know one will be a challenge. Merely judging if a programmer is exceptional vs. competent will be very hard if you are not one yourself. When you do find someone, work together informally for a while to test your compatibility. — Jessica Livingston

North is a powerful man, and you're still connected to him." Flo frowned. "Probably sexual memory, those Capricorns are insatiable. Well, you know. Sea Goat. And of course, you're a Fish. You'll end up back in bed with him."
Andie slammed the car door. "You know what I'd like for Christmas, Flo? Boundaries. You can gift me early if you'd like. — Jennifer Crusie

It is thus not so much the transformation of reality that the reader senses as the remaking of the order and the position in which common elements of human experience occur and coalesce. The recording of simultaneous but different actions in the same narrative space, the concept of the vasos comunicantes, in which two dialogues spatially and temporally independent are interwoven into one, the running together of thought processes in the form of interior monologues and stream of consciousness, and the fragmenting or refracting of everyday occurrences-these are some of the techniques that change one level of reality into another, that help create one reality out of another, that invent a new reality and invite the reader to be part of it. — Myron I. Lichtblau

Love is wonderful, amazing, and the best thing that can happen to us. — Mary J. Blige

After a decade I became fed up with the strobe because I had done almost everything once and I didn't want to repeat myself. — Gjon Mili

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. — Alan Paton