Longiness Modern Quotes & Sayings

My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me. — Ruben Santiago-Hudson

Sometimes we're so wrapped up in our own story that we don't see how we're supporting characters in someone else's. So — Nathan Hill

What-what do you want?" Annabeth asked, trying to maintain a tone of confidence.
The voice cackled maliciously.
'To curse you, of course! To destroy you thousand times in the name of Mother Night!'
"Only a thousand times?" Percy murmured. "Oh, good ... I thought we were in trouble. — Rick Riordan

I am the brightest light beaming from the darkest depths. A dichotomy, i am ... illumination. — Jaeda DeWalt

A poem is like a wine glass in which you can hold up a little bit of reality and taste it. — Gwen Harwood

You should make it hard on yourself to write so you're easier to read. — Fran Lebowitz

Incidentally, you really can scream with your heart; but it's incredibly painful. — Nina George

Thus it went as she made her way around the biomes of Ring B. Always she found that her mother the great engineer had made some crucial intervention, finding solutions to problems that had stymied the locals. Devi had the knack of sidestepping dilemmas, Badim said when Freya mentioned this, by moving back several logical steps, and coming at the situation from some new way not yet noticed. "It's sometimes called avoiding acquiescence," Badim said. "Acquiescence means accepting the framing of a problem, and working on it from within the terms of the frame. It's a kind of mental economy, but also a kind of sloth. And Devi does not have that kind of sloth, as you know. She is always interrogating the framing of the problem. Acquiescence is definitely not her mode. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. — Arnold H. Glasow

The joy of hate reflects people who get off pretending to hate something, or hate you, in order to score political points. I call them the 'tolerati' - you know, a group of people who claim to be tolerant, except when they run into someone who disagrees with them. — Greg Gutfeld

As a blind voter, I'm strongly opposed to the paperless e-voting machines that the NFB is trying to force onto us. I want a voting system that is accessible to as many voters as possible and that also produces an audit trail. The paperless machines are simply the wrong approach, and I support the County's efforts to try to find a better way. — David Dixon

Don't compare your behind-the-scenes look to everyone else's highlight reel. — Jenny Lawson