Knightons Engine Quotes & Sayings

The old women were gone. They seemed to have ascended into the darkness like the waxy smoke from the candles after he capped them with the brass bell at the end of the snuffer. For a moment, staring into the darkness, he imagined the rafters full of smoky old women with hair sprouting from their chins. Hundreds of them. Thousands. Whispering in Italian, and Polish, and Latin about dead husbands and dead children. Like angels grown old but not allowed to die. He could smell them: the odor of candles. — Pete Hamill

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future. — Arthur C. Clarke

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. — Robert M. Hutchins

Growing up as a black kid with a white father who loves you, who affirms you, who was part of your life is fundamentally different than what black people in my family were subjected to in the 19th century or the 18th century. But unfortunately, it doesn't change the old racial order. I think we need to let the old racial order just stay where it is and not seek to improve upon it. Not try to create more racial categories, because all that does is it makes a race stick around longer. — Benjamin Jealous

But, I'm kind of a control freak. I get really freaked out if I don't know what's going on and what's going to happen. — Kristen Stewart

LIFE DEMANDS FOR US TO STRETCH OURSELVES — Sunday Adelaja

Almost everything else I have done during my adult years has been affected to some extent by my name - by my father's position, if you will. But in the air, I had no name; to the Federal Aviation Agency I was simply Comanche Nine-Nine POP. The quality of my landings, navigation and judgment were mine alone. — John Eisenhower

tricks are for kids, — Kwame Alexander