Landmann Smoky Quotes & Sayings

Twitter is amazing. I advertised for the position of research assistant on Twitter, and both of my researchers came from there. — Lauren Beukes

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

It is of course, entirely possible that men (or anyone who is relatively privileged) are most defensive, most obstinate and unseeing when they are worried about losing privileges ... In the reactions of husbands, I detect a haunting worry about what they will lose when true gender equality arrives. — Faye J Crosby

Pops says he loves me just the way I am, but not everyone in the world is like my father. Maman, for example. A difficult and dissatisfied woman. She made me learn flower arranging and how to walk properly
books on my head, the whole bit. These things ruined me for life. Now it sets my teeth on edge when I see flowers carelessly flung into a vase, and I'm forever looking at other women in the street and thinking, [I]Sloppy ... sloppy[/I]. And I know I shouldn't care, and I want to poke myself in the eye for caring, but I care anyway, so thanks for that, Maman. — Helen Oyeyemi

The greatest proof of power is the mass grave, the camp as a field of the dead. However, total power here cancels itself. Death is the absolute antisocial fact. For that reason, the absolute power to kill can never become total. In order to escape this dilemma, it constantly searches out new victims, defining new groups of opponents. Everyone is on terror's proscription list - extended to its logical conclusion, all of humankind. — Wolfgang Sofsky

We've trained and trained for a reason: to be better at the craft of war than our enemy, to use our skill to perform the mission, and to accept the risks. As American warriors, it's our obligation to protect the innocent. And that means, sometimes, that we're the ones who need to be put on the disadvantaged side of the threat cycle. — Marcus Luttrell

Michael Clarke Duncan and I met at a music festival that was honoring films, and we happened to be seated next to each other at the dinner, and we just hit it off and kept in touch ever since. He was just the gentle giant in real life like you would have expected him to be. — Nikki Blonsky

I have an instinct for music, or a feeling about it, and I'll have my feelings guide my hands. — Brian Wilson

Wait," Dion said. "You just defeated an assassin with a hostile takeover?" "I use the cards dealt to me. — Brandon Sanderson

You should never poison a witch. — Kelly Link

But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own. — Vincent Kartheiser

There are more consequences to a shipwreck than the underwriters notice. — Henry David Thoreau

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it. — Ray Kurzweil