Navigable Waterways Quotes & Sayings

I don't want to do something just for money or fame; I have to enjoy working on it! If I start to work for everyone and everything, I could not look at myself in the mirror again. — Marilou

Happiness is a Small Politician' - my mantra then and forever more. — Ralph Steadman

Pedagogy and Equality are always trumped by Maternity. — Jessica Brockmole

Paul Broca, for example, was a famous French craniologist in the nineteenth century whose name is given to Broca's area, the part of the frontal lobe involved in the generation of speech (which is wiped out in many stroke victims). Among his other interests, Broca used to measure brains, and he was always rather perturbed by the fact that the German brains came out a hundred grams heavier than French brains. So he decided that other factors, such as overall body weight, should also be taken into account when measuring brain size: this explained the larger Germanic brains to his satisfaction. But for his prominent work on how men have larger brains than women, he didn't make any such adjustments. Whether by accident or by design, it's a kludge. — Ben Goldacre

When I returned, everything was different. Everything was calm, and I felt very clean. Everything was in order. Everything was as it should be. I had a secret. It was a guilty secret, certainly. But it was MY secret. I had something to hold on to. It was company. It kept me calm. It filled me up and emptied me out. — Marya Hornbacher

When I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. — Julia Cameron

People who are truly horrible are often the most interesting people in the room. You look at them and just say, 'Why?' — Ian McKellen

Not only are Puerto Ricans citizens by birth, but one would be hard-pressed to find a Puerto Rican without a sister in New York or a son in Chicago, a cousin in Orlando or a daughter in Honolulu or Oklahoma City. — Luis A. Ferre

There's something I learned when I was homeless: Our limitation is God's opportunity. When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain't nothin you can do, that's when God takes over. — Denver Moore

An important fraction of United States industry adheres to the idea that research of a fundamental character is worthwhile from a practical point of view. — William Shockley