Innumeracy Sociology Quotes & Sayings

Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told.
Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer

I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy ... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role. — Zoe McLellan

The potential biographies of those who die young possess the mystic dignity of a headless statue, the poetry of enigmatic passages in an unfinished or mutilated manuscript, unburdened with contrived or banal endings. — Anthony Powell

I hesitated at the top of the stairs, feeling nervous and stupid, for this was a situation I had not experienced before, and my training did not seem to be quite equal to it. Also, I suddenly thought of the parrot in a cage and that was distracting. — Barbara Pym

COURSER My soul, living is like a courser of the night; the swifter its flight, the nearer the dawn. WM-ST-69 — Kahlil Gibran

But in the life of every man there are influences of a far more real and penetrating character than those which come through the medium of schools or teachers. — Frederic William Farrar

Go ahead," Leandro tempted, "I dare you."
"I'm a theif, my hands are fast."
"I'm a murderer, so are mine. — Geoffrey Knight

I see you have returned, my love; and your mood is as dark as ever. Did your soldiers not adore you to your complete satisfaction? — Wayne Gerard Trotman

The problem of living in this modern world is the problem of finding room in it. The crowd principle is so universally at work through modern life that the geography of the world had been changed to conform to it. We live in crowds. We get our living in crowds. We are amused in herds. — Gerald Stanley Lee

It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs. — Jane Alexander

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. — Mikhail Bulgakov

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written. — Virginia Hamilton