Ferah Tex Quotes & Sayings

See how (for instance) the cultural can be freed from the tyranny of the natural; gender from biology; how social change has occurred, and how it can change again; how to reveal and defend (without fetishizing) cultural difference; how to make visible the 'political unconscious' of our culture. — Jonathan Dollimore

When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused. — Eric Weiner

I am grateful for the great education at a public university that Germany gave me, and that - added to a little luck - allowed me to achieve. Education is the key to a career, and its basis has to be provided by government. — Hasso Plattner

Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency of one culture overlays another, and another, to form the daguerreotype of possibilities that is homo sapiens, interacting, almost like the elements themselves, with the created world and modified only by context and its imperatives. — Rosy Cole

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. — Aleister Crowley

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it. — Arlen Specter

The man whose silent daysIn harmless joys are spent,Whom hopes cannot delude,Nor sorrow discontent:That man needs neither towersNor armour for defence,Nor secret vaults to flyFrom thunder's violence. — Thomas Campion

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. — Joseph Conrad

My goal is to see that mental illness is treated like cancer. — Jane Pauley

The real reason I like natural fabrics is not just because they are traditional, but because of their provenance. I like the thought that, for example, a favourite tweed jacket was once a sheep, living upon a mountain in Scotland. — Fennel Hudson

The liberal groups spent months raising money so they could take down anyone President Bush nominated. But they have not been able to touch judge Roberts. — Michael Oxley

I call on men and boys everywhere to join us. Violence against women and girls will not be eradicated until all of us - men and boys - refuse to tolerate it. — Ban Ki-moon

I'm not one of those New Age types that believe 'it's all meant to be' and that our lives have been scripted by an invisible hand. — Robin S. Sharma

Gentlemen," returned Mr. Micawber, "do with me as you will! I am a straw upon the surface of the deep, and am tossed in all directions by the elephants- I beg your pardon; I should have said the elements. — Charles Dickens

I didn't come to play. I came to win. — Kamahl