Genpop Quotes & Sayings

They are afraid, Tayo. They feel something happening, they can see something happening around them, and it scares them. Indians or Mexicans or whites - most people are afraid of change. They think that if their children have the same color of skin, the same color of eyes, that nothing is changing." She laughed softly. "They are fools. They blame us, the ones who look different. That way they don't have to think about what has happened inside themselves. — Leslie Marmon Silko

I tend to be sort of quiet and shy and awkward in social situations. — Tony Kushner

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand. — Ezra Pound

The people's right to change what does not work is one of the greatest principles in our system of government — Richard M. Nixon

People who wrote novels about universities hardly ever got them right. Max had spent his short working life untenured, but still he'd managed to be a charming magnet wherever he taught, and Amy had surfeited on faculty gossip and professorial antics and the general behavior of academics, who were as a whole no more brilliant or Machiavellian than travel agents. They tended toward shabbier clothes and manners, and of course there was the occasional storied eccentric or truly original mind, but most college campuses - especially the older ones - functioned less as brain trusts than as wildlife preserves, housing and protecting people who wouldn't last a week in GenPop. — Jincy Willett

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way. — Mikhail Baryshnikov

The ability to speak exactly is intimately related to the ability to know exactly. — Wendell Berry

There is a difference between depression and sadness. I am happy to be sad. — Amanda Mosher

Above all, leadership is a position of servanthood. — Max De Pree

Maybe when we were shooting in the school, I was feeling more like it. Every time I go back to a school for work, I always feel so huge. Everything seems so little. The lockers seem smaller than I remember and the length of the hallways seem shorter when you're a kid. — Judy Greer

Nothing seems to matter quite as much. I no longer think about death in the concentrated way I once did. I don't know? you get so old and you sort of give up in some way. You've had your period of angst, your period of religious desperation, and you've arrived at a philosophical position where you don't need, or you can't bear, to look at it. — John Updike

What payoff are you getting for remaining stuck at this point in your expansion? — Julia Cameron