Cherrington Elementary Quotes & Sayings

And the fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people. — Jacques Rivette

The rules of a well-ordered life were never enough when other people refused to obey them. — Armistead Maupin

And while the black women are the most hidden of the mathematicians who worked at the NACA, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and later at NASA, they were not sitting alone in the shadows: the white women who made up the majority of Langley's computing workforce over the years have hardly been recognized for their contributions to the agency's long-term success. Virginia Biggins worked the Langley beat for the Daily Press newspaper, covering the space program starting in 1958. "Everyone said, 'This is a scientist, this is an engineer,' and it was always a man," she said in a 1990 panel on Langley's human computers. She never got to meet any of the women. "I just assumed they were all secretaries," she said. Five — Margot Lee Shetterly

When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practical man relies on the language of the first. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'd have liked for him to say my name again, though. You know how it is when someone says your name really well, like it means something that makes the world a better place. — Helen Oyeyemi

Thank God for theater and film and television and my very, very, very lucky life. — Jonathan Banks

I started boxing when I was eight. I enjoyed when I could hit someone and they couldn't hit me back. It was like a game for me. The feeling of knocking someone out. My first knockout victory was when I was ten. He went down and his nose started to bleed, so they stopped it. — Emanuel Steward

Prayer time must be kept up as duly as meal-time. — Matthew Henry

He occupied an alternate universe that intersected nowhere with hers. He no longer represented someday, a possibility. He represented a road not taken, a road that suddenly shot so far into the distance she couldn't see where it went anymore. — Ann Brashares

We need to differentiate between commercial piracy - where criminal organisations produce illicit DVDs on a huge scale - and domestic, unauthorised filesharing, which may or may not be detrimental to overall sales. — Nick Harkaway

Stay cognizant of the belief that you will live the lives of those you encounter. — Bud Clark