Boellstorff Quotes & Sayings

God, and not woman, is the heart of all. But she, as priestess of the visible earth, Holding the key, herself most beautiful, Had come to him, and flung the portals wide. He entered in: each beauty was a glass That gleamed the woman back upon his view. — George MacDonald

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on. — Richard Hawley

Her teeth were like a soccer crowd, crammed in. — Markus Zusak

Is he mad? Anyway there's something on his mind, as sure as there must be something on a deck when it cracks. — Herman Melville

Huge volumes of data may be compelling at first glance, but without an interpretive structure they are meaningless. — Tom Boellstorff

Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual. — Tom Boellstorff

Just as in the physical world, people within virtual worlds perform and cycle through different roles and identities. Virtual worlds make such shifts explicit, as well as introducing spaces for play and performance. — Tom Boellstorff

This is what conservatives have spawned with their welfare cuts and their indifference to the plight of those not like themselves, say my colleagues at the university. This is what liberals have spawned with their fostering of the victim mentality and their indifference to the traditional values of hard work and family, my father used to tell his cheering audiences. In my sour moments, it strikes me that both sides seem much more interested in winning the argument than in alleviating these women's suffering. — Stephen L. Carter

You always dream about being on a baseball card. It's kind of funny when you finally see it. — Alex Rodriguez

Starting a business is easy, succeeding is a different story." Model Me VIP — Steven Cuoco

Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me ... of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God. — John Wesley