Extemporizes Quotes & Sayings

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry. — Meg Rosoff

We wouldn't have put it out with the name Queen on it if we didn't think it was musically up to scratch. — Brian May

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice. — Kenny Rogers

Watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand. — Dean Koontz

Michael Jackson is an extremely productive ethnographer, a serious reader of phenomenological and existential philosophy, and a remarkable writer at a level that one rarely sees in anthropology. Lifeworlds, unsurprisingly, is no exception. The several essays included here fit into an impressive whole that set out a compelling case for a type of ethnography of which Jackson is one of the masters. The writing is strong and the critical reflections impressive. This book defines an approach to anthropology that is resonant enough to challenge the leading models of our time. — Arthur Kleinman

Not so long ago the Earth numbered 2 billion inhabitants, i.e., 500 million men and 1.5 billion "natives." The first possessed the Word, the others borrowed it. — Frantz Fanon

I don't know what happiness is. I don't know what sweet caress is. Still, I'm always laughing like a clown. — Bob Marley