Isiah Whitlock Jr Cedar Rapids Quotes & Sayings

Lured by smooth roads onto a new turnpike, he read with surprise the rules he was handed, don't stop, don't turn around, pay when you get there; he made his escape at the first exit he saw, for fiftyfive cents, and now he was on the old road buzzing the staid turnpike by turns over and under, teasing it crazy. — Douglas Woolf

Maxine recoils, only partly out of the classic accountant's allergy to real folding money — Thomas Pynchon

I thought of inviting you to my other club but you know how it is. Lunching there is a useful way of reminding people that you're still alive, but the members will come up and congratulate you on the fact. — P.D. James

From 18 to 22, I was alone, living in L.A. with a bunch of friends, partying. — Heath Ledger

When we have specific interests or purposes, can we leverage this tsunami of multimedia to our own individual aims and for the greater good of all? — Mark T. Maybury

The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more. — Malcolm X

The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve. — Henry Ward Beecher

Passions often produce their contraries: avarice sometimes leads to prodigality, and prodigality to avarice; we are often obstinate through weakness and daring through timidity. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

We must abandon the external height images in which the theistic God has historically been perceived and replace them with internal depth images of a deity who is not apart from us, but who is the very core and ground of all that is. - Paul Tillich — Diana Butler Bass

I believe that if we are to continue to strengthen the social and economic fabric and future of this nation, we cannot tolerate laws that drive some of our best talent to choose between living in their country or with the person they love. — Lynn Schusterman

As a matter of fact, we had already been warned against sliding down the marble banisters, not out of fear that we might break a leg or an arm, for that never worried our parents-which was, I think, why we never broke anything-but because they feared that since we were growing up and gaining weight, we might knock over the busts of ancestors placed by our father on the banisters at the turn of every flight of stairs. Cosimo had, in fact, once brought down a bishop, a great-great-great-grandfather, miter and all; lie was punished, and since then he had learned to brake just before reaching the turn of a flight and jump off within a hair's-breadth of running into a bust. — Italo Calvino