Cliometric Society Quotes & Sayings

To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. — Allen Ginsberg

The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them. I was wondering what my body knew that I didn't. — Sue Monk Kidd

Close thine eyes, and while thou sleepest Heaven will change thy fortune from evil to good. — Anonymous

Class. You either have it, or you don't. It's not determined by how you dress, your level of education or your social standing. It's conveyed in how you carry yourself and treat others. Some folks go to great lengths to "prove" they make the grade. Ultimately, people with class are outstanding without trying too hard to stand out. — Carlos Wallace

Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back. — Richard Siken

Indeed, the world is a better place because there was such a leader as President Gordon B. Hinckley. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

Congressmember Weiner has shown just a pattern of reckless behavior, an inability to tell the truth, and what New Yorkers deserve is a mayor with a record of delivering for them, of vision, and a level of maturity and responsibility. — Christine Quinn

The best way to find things out is not to ask questions at all. If you fire off a question, it is like firing off a gun - bang it goes — Aldous Huxley

whatever may have been the crimes of England, she was the unconscious tool of history in bringing about that revolution. — Anonymous

But sometimes, like tonight, she feels plugged in to the raw emotion of it all, a closed circuit, and if she doesn't keep it at arm's length, it still has the power to break her. — Blake Crouch

I try to keep my life as private as I can, but I definitely don't do what I do for the attention because if I knew coming into that I would have all those people outside my house, I might have given myself a second thought. — Miley Cyrus

Cancer's like the ultimate excuse. Who's gonna say, 'Oh, no, you have to show up for this one?' 'Hey, I got cancer. I can't be there.' It's the ultimate eraser. — Melissa Etheridge

Coming back to Karachi is like stepping into the sea again after months on land. How easily you float, how peaceful is the sense of being borne along, and how familiar the sound of the water lapping against your limbs. — Kamila Shamsie