Dunnavant Place Quotes & Sayings

Their intuitive capacity to communicate often transcended the limits of conventional oral discourse. They always understood each other. — Sheldon Stern

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. — Charles Krauthammer

The same uneven application of values applies in the weird worlds of academia and the think tanks. Like the media, they choose to close off their minds the moment that the question of Islam comes along. Most bizarre is that you can get away with saying anything, absolutely anything, so long as it is flattering of Islam. It doesn't matter how soppy, how sentimental, how completely unacademic it is: so long as it's about Islam, different standards apply. — Douglas Murray

A good book is a portal that will take you anywhere in the world. — Colette

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't. — George Bernard Shaw

The Nobel Prize is worth $1.5 million, but that's not the issue. Do the distinguished scientists who win the Nobel Prize need the money? Probably not. The honor is more important the money, and that's the case with the prize for African leadership as well. — Mo Ibrahim

Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

But you raised a ruckus about and threatened to perform a Julius Caesarian on anybody on anybody who calls April the cruelest month- I was Damn born out of the loins of my father in the spring of April, you claimed. Surgeon, you stood up for the month of buds and bitches like a true Kuon Kunos — Aporva Kala

When he told it, I remembered. He handed me my past like ... like a spear. But I do not know if I should take it. Is it still mine, if I do not want it? — Rick Riordan

You teach a child to read, and he or her will be able to pass a literacy test. — George W. Bush

I never failed. It just didn't work 10,000 times. — Thomas A. Edison