J Sika Mikl S Quotes & Sayings

Any supreme insight is a metaphor. — Charles Henry Parkhurst

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue and scold by the hour, servants, you see, to his fancy. Among these people he was always self-confident and bold. They might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and best. He was like a writer busy among the figures of his brain, a kind of tiny blue-eyed king he was, in a six-dollar room facing Washington Square in the city of New York. — Sherwood Anderson

If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. — Morrissey

I live in my own bubble. I'm in Gublerland. — Matthew Gray Gubler

Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return. — Colin Powell

We were raised in an Italian-American household, although we didn't speak Italian in the house. We were very proud of being Italian, and had Italian music, ate Italian food. — Francis Ford Coppola

I would strenuously urge a single term of six years. — Rutherford B. Hayes

When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all. — Dolly Parton

Racism is a moral catastrophe, most graphically seen in the prison industrial complex and targeted police surveillance in black and brown ghettos rendered invisible in public discourse. — Cornel West

I want to give someone a job."
"Doing what?"
"That's the thing. I don't know. And actually, I want YOU to give someone a job."
His eyebrows rose. "You want me to give someone a job doing... you don't know what?"
"What's the point of having somebody who employs half the planet anyway if you can't say, 'Give this girl a job'? — J.D. Robb

Statistics are the lifeblood of baseball. In no other sport are so many available and studied so assiduously by participants and fans. Much of the game's appeal, as a conversation piece, lies in the opportunity the fan gets to back up opinions and arguments with convincing figures, and it is entirely possible that more American boys have mastered long division by dealing with batting averages than in any other way. — Leonard Koppett

This inner yes is an unconditionally constructive attitude of acceptance and respect - first toward yourself, then toward life, and finally toward others. — William Ury