Lakedistrict Quotes & Sayings

I guess really what my goal is is just to enlarge the violin repertoire. — Leila Josefowicz

Black jurors sit on juries every day and convict black people every day. — Johnnie Cochran

Was there to be any end to the gradual improvement in the techniques and artifices used by the replicators to ensure their own continuation in the world? There would be plenty of time for improvement. What weird engines of self-preservation would the millennia bring forth? Four thousand million years on, what was to be the fate of the ancient replicators?
They did not die out, for they are past masters of the survival arts. But do not look for them floating loose in the sea; they gave up that cavalier freedom long ago. Now they swarm in huge colonies, safe inside gigantic lumbering robots, sealed off from the outside world, communicating with it by tortuous indirect routes, manipulating it by remote control.
They are in you and in me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. — Richard Dawkins

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa. — Mo Ibrahim

He loved baseball so much that he sometimes went home after a game, rounded up a few of the kids from the neighborhood, and played in the street until dark. — Jonathan Eig

He said, 'Damianos.'
Before Damen could tell him to rise, he heard it again, echoed in another voice, and then another. It was passing over the gathered men in the courtyard, his name in tones of shock and of awe. The steward beside Nikandros was kneeling. And then four of the men in the front ranks. And then more, dozens of men, rank after rank of soldiers.
And as Damen looked out, the army was dropping to its knees, until the courtyard was a sea of bowed heads, and silence replaced the murmur of voices, the words spoken over and over again.
'He lives. The King's son lives. Damianos.' — C.S. Pacat

It is the characteristic of great poems that they will yield of their sense in due proportion to the hasty and the deliberate reader. To the practical they will be common sense, and to the wise wisdom; as either the traveler may wet his lips, or an army may fill its water-casks at a full stream. — Henry David Thoreau

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy. — Earl Nightingale

If we are to understand the interactions of a large number of agents, we must first be able to describe the capabilities of individual agents. — John Henry Holland

I can't be everywhere, but I'm always in one of my kitchens, and hopefully I'm motivating and inspiring. — April Bloomfield

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey

My swag is always capital and live in north Virginia. — Donald Glover