Famous Black Inventor Quotes & Sayings

He missed two people: a) the girl she was; b) the person she'd made him feel he might have been. A deep sigh escaped him. — Ken Bruen

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. — Marguerite Duras

Acknowledge your will and speak to us all, "This alone is what I will to be!" Hang your own penal code up above you: we want to be its enforcers! — Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle. — Jean-Pierre Melville

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it. — Eugene V. Debs

an odd-job detective agency with fuzzy lines of authority and responsibility. — Bryan Burrough

All interstellar empires rose and fell, ultimately, on their ability to deliver on this one simple, unexciting thing: logistics. — John Jackson Miller

Such is the constitution of man that labour may be styled its own reward; nor will any external incitements be requisite, if it be considered how much happiness is gained, and how much misery escaped, by frequent and violent agitation of the body. — Samuel Johnson

Everybody in!" I said.
Which was when we discovered the final problem.
Little Echos aren't designed to hold six, count them six, larger-than-average-sized children.
And their wings.
And a dog.
"This is like a clown car," Total grumbled front my lap in the front seat.
"Why does the dog get to sit in your lap?' Gazzy asked plaintively, as we rattled and banged down the dark streets. "How about a kid?"
"Oh. 'The dog.' Very nice," said Total.
"Because you're not allowed to have people on your lap in the front seats," I explained. "It's not safe. If a cop saw us, we'd be stopped for sure. You want Total back there?"
Everyone in the back screamed no at the same time. — James Patterson

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouthes at us, is courteous. — George Herbert

It was a puzzling thing as to why they packed up in towns in the way they did. — Paulette Jiles