Layabout Seven Quotes & Sayings

It is no small mischief to a boy, that many of the best years of his life should be devoted to the learning of what can never be of any real use to any human being. His mind is necessarily rendered frivolous and superficial by the long habit of attaching importance to words instead of things; to sound instead of sense. — William Cobbett

When you analyze all the data, there is a warming trend according to science. But the jury is out on the degree of how much is manmade. — Rob Portman

I experiment with fashion, with my look, with everything. I'm a multidimensional woman, like all women are. The difference is that I have the balls to take chances. — Nicki Minaj

When you consider that only an estimated 15 percent of the US population plays chess, its cultural prominence is extraordinary. It — Garry Kasparov

The night after we talked, Jason couldn't sleep. He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence. "She's not a bad girl," my friend said. "She was just choosing the best story available to her." I pictured his daughter flipping through the channels of life, as it were, stopping on a story that seemed most compelling at the moment, a story that offered her something, anything, because people can't live without a story, without a role to play. "So how did you get her out of it? — Donald Miller