Mikala Peterson Quotes & Sayings

Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live. — Peter Cochrane

What I love in fashion is to tell a story through a creation. — Alber Elbaz

You clobber Death when he's breathing in your ear and see how you feel about the club. — Robert Liparulo

People eat the chicken, people eat the beef, they still say, 'Don't kill the fish.' — Nobu Matsuhisa

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books. — Larry Winget

Thanks to her, I began to learn about the Trickster, a common figure in Native myhtologies, a boundary crosser who can go anywhere. Unlike the Jester and the Clown, who are at the bottom of a hieractchical pile and surivive only by making the king laugh, the Trickster is free, a paradox, a break of boundaries who makes us laugh- and laughter lets the sacred it. — Gloria Steinem

I've always been interested in photographing traditions and customs - especially in America. The prom is an American tradition, a rite of passage that has always been one of the most important rituals of American youth. It is a day in our lives that we never forget - a day full of hopes and dreams for our future. — Mary Ellen Mark

Everyone uses the brain at every moment, but we use it unconsciously. We let it run in the background without realizing the power we have to reshape the brain. When you begin to exercise your power, the everyday brain, which we call the baseline brain, starts to move in the direction of super brain. — Deepak Chopra

If we say that a person has style we may wish to imply that he is unnatural, affected, self-conscious or ostentatious. In the sixteenth century 'maniera' was generally a desirable attribute of a work of art, but this positive aspect was accompanied by the realization of the negative one that correspond to what we now call, derogatively, stylization. — John Shearman

There is more hope for an opinion than for a false fact. — Matshona Dhliwayo

We have reached a point where the value we do add to our economy is now being outweighed by the value we are removing, not only from future generations in terms of diminished resources, but from ourselves in terms of unlivable cities, deadening jobs, deteriorating health, and rising crime. In biological terms, we have become a parasite and are devouring our host. — Paul Hawken

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that. — Kodi Smit-McPhee

Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it. — John Kessel

I'm going to take you to the heavens, Angie. And I'm going to be your tether to this earth when you explode — J. Kenner

I have this theory about divorce. I have a theory that is never a tragedy for adults and always a tragedy for children. Adults can lose weight, find someone nicer, get their life back. Divorce gives grown-ups a get-out-of-jail-free card. It is the children who pay the price, and pay it for the rest of their lives. But we can't admit that, all us scarred veterans of the divorce court, because it would mean admitting that we have inflicted wounds on our children that they will carry for the rest of their lives. — Tony Parsons