Eskwelahan Ni Quotes & Sayings

The British census of Palestine in 1922 recorded 84,000 Jews and 670,000 Arabs, of whom 71,000 were Christian, most of the remainder being Muslim. — Lawrence Wright

To practice with an end in view is to have one eye on the practice and the other on the end, which is lack of concentration, lack of sincerity. — Alan W. Watts

Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form. — Vladimir Nabokov

In the consumer economy taste is not the criterion in the marketing of expensive soft drinks, usability is not the primary criterion in the marketing of home and office appliances. We are surrounded with objects of desire, not objects of use. — Donald A. Norman

Miss Marple made the kind of noise that would once have been written down as 'tut-tut'. — Agatha Christie

A government institution called the Finnish Film Foundation funds filmmaking there, and I wrote several screenplays but never got any money. They were sent back to me, and they said that they were too commercial for them. — Renny Harlin

There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind. — Bonnie Raitt

Research experts want to know what can be done about the values of poor segregated children; and this is a question that needs asking. But they do not ask what can be done about the values of the people who have segregated these communities. There is no academic study of the pathological detachment of the very rich ... — Jonathan Kozol

It is not that I despise men. If I did I should have no right, and no reason, to try to govern. — Marguerite Yourcenar

Life is glorious, but it can be counted on to be cruel. — Noah Gordon

To anyone complaining about our schedule - call us. We'll put you on it. — Gregg Marshall

[Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with the pain. — Margaret Coel

I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson. — Wanda Jackson

I had to marry a Greek; I had to stir up the ethnic pot. Otherwise, my children would have been anemic and sickly. Now they've got some good Mediterranean blood in them. — Alexandra Wentworth