Freken Quotes & Sayings

As a group, anthropologists are not too fond of people who work in the business world. — Helen Fisher

My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more. — Rose Byrne

Power doesn't corrupt. It's neutral. Someone always wants to corrupt power. It's the way a shotgun is not a deadly weapon until someone chooses to use it irrationally. — Steve Ditko

Was not from a mixture of two races that the Titans sprang? — Jose Clemente Orozco

Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.' — Fede Alvarez

The University of Southern California has a wonderful social work department, and I was thrilled to find out that they have a whole veterans' initiative program there. They approached me, and I set up a scholarship that would go to a military-oriented person to learn techniques and skills to better help veterans. — Gary Sinise

Once she was gone, every memory was suddenly precious, even the bad ones, even the times I was irritated with her, or she was irritated with me. Then it seemed a luxury to be irritated. — Lydia Davis

The greatest danger in finding the right path often lies in here: The right path may look ugly and the wrong path may look beautiful! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Language mavens commonly confuse their own peeves with a worsening of the language. — Steven Pinker

When I was a kid growing up, I used to watch 'DuckTales.' — Aaron Paul

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions. — Max Lerner

One may say that predictions are dangerous particularly for the future. If the danger involved in a prediction is not incurred, no consequence follows and the uncertainty principle is not violated. — Edward Teller

They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. — Charles Bukowski

We Americans have the great gifts of freedom and democracy, but it has been our education system that has fulfilled the promise of democracy. — James E. Rogers

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people. — Chuck Palahniuk