Meridian Alice Walker Quotes & Sayings

I feel like a 1960s graduate student. I still work on note cards. I've never found a better system. — Lawrence Wright

The world isn't your friend," Joe told Eleanor. "It's not designed to go your way. All you can do is make the decision to muscle through and fight the trend. — Maria Semple

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do. — Matt Corby

The words are strung together, with their own special grammar-the laws of quantum theory-to form sentences, which are molecules. Soon we have books, entire libraries, made out of molecular "sentences." The universe is like a library in which the words are atoms. Just look at what has been written with these hundred words! Our own bodies are books in that library, specified by the organization of molecules-but the universe and literature are organizations of identical, interchangeable objects; they are information systems. — Heinz Pagels

I feel like I'm going to die,' he says.
'Could we talk for a few minutes before you die?'
'Only if you do it quietly.'
'I met this girl last night. I need your advice.'
'Come back later.'
'No. You might be dead. — Doug MacLeod

To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind. — William James

Leave war to others; 'tis Protesilaus' part of love. — Ovid

I may contradict myself, but at least I don't contradict myself. — Stephen Hawking

Disneyland is like a piece of clay: If there is something I don't like, I'm not stuck with it. I can reshape and revamp. — Walt Disney

Laziness is when your sleep overcomes your passion, not under the influence of drugs but under the control of excuses and procrastination! — Israelmore Ayivor

It is impossible to read the history of the petty republics of Greece and Italy without feeling sensations of horror and disgust at the distractions with which they were continually agitated, and at the rapid succession of revolutions by which they were kept in a state of perpetual vibration between the extremes of tyranny and anarchy ... great improvement ... were either not known at all, or imperfectly known to the ancients. — Alexander Hamilton

I have learned that newborn infants roll their eyes around and move their heads and their arms in short jerky spasms. And if you homeschool them, they will stay this way forever. — John Hodgman

Although you will often receive something other than what you prayed for, I have never known it to be worse - it has always been better than expected. — Squire Rushnell