Hombeek Quotes & Sayings

It was Ma who first noticed my body changing, but she wasn't exactly tactful about my getting cuerpo. "Put on a bra already, Piddy," she said after she noticed a man on the bus gawking at my chest one day. "You can't go around with two loose onions in your shirt for all the boys to stare at," she snapped, like it was my fault that the man had helped himself to the show. — Meg Medina

A small but typical example of how 'philosophy' sends out new shoots is to be found in the case of Georg Cantor, a nineteenth-century German mathematician. His research on the subject of infinity was at first written off by his scientific colleagues as mere 'philosophy' because it seemed so bizarre, abstract and pointless. Now it is taught in schools under the name of set-theory. — Anthony Gottlieb

... it only takes one tree to make
A thousand matches
Only takes one match to burn
A thousand trees. — Stereophonics

One of the great creative statesmen of our age was Franklin Roosevelt. He was creative precisely because he preferred experiment to ideology. — Robert Kennedy

No, there's not much competition between puppeteers in general because everybody's working their own style. — Jim Henson

Concentration is born on the practice court ... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit. — Martina Navratilova

'Have fun' is my message. Be silly. You're allowed to be silly. There's nothing wrong with it. — Jimmy Fallon

We are often so distracted by the internal war between what we want to do and what we have to do that we overlook what we need to do. — Tonya Hurley