Negress Define Quotes & Sayings

I would be the first to admit that my maternal instincts are not well developed
though in defense I must add that the raising of Ramses would have discouraged any woman. — Elizabeth Peters

Guys who can't get a job on Wall Street get a job at Moody's, as one Goldman Sachs trader-turned-hedge fund manager put it. — Michael Lewis

Artistry, perhaps, is at its core being able to control change in interesting ways. — Jeff Ryan

Live the message, don't just read about it and preach. — Dennis M. Dupuis

So sophisticated and smart, but our eyes tell us lies, or at best the truth in part. — Chris Murphy

Scientist and baseball fan Mike McBeath set out to understand the hidden neural computations behind catching fly balls. — David Eagleman

When I say something like "back when I was in high school," I usually mean: "back when I was supposed to be in high school. — Carlton Mellick III

As my nostrils filled with the stench of burnt hair and my friends scurried to clean up the mess, I thought, 'If your hair catches on fire while you're making a wish, does that mean it isn't coming true? — Sarah Thebarge

There have been times when I truly feel like I'm retarded and that everybody thinks I'm retarded, and because they think I'm retarded, I get nervous and I act like a retard, which simply fulfills their expectations. It's a big circle. The retarded circle of my life. — Geoff Herbach

Nobody likes children, your mother assured you. That doesn't mean you don't have them. — Junot Diaz

Photography transformed subject into object, and even, one might say, into a museum object: in order to take the first portraits the subject had to assume long poses under a glass roof in bright sunlight; to become an object made one suffer as much as surgical operation; then a device was invented, a kind of prosthesis invisible to the lens, which supported and maintained the body in its passage to immobility: this headrest was the pedestal of the statue I would become, the corset of my imaginary essence. — Roland Barthes

Had she not been of exceptional intelligence and literacy, with an imagination filled and sustained, so to speak, by the images of others, images conveyed by language, by the word, she might have remained almost as helpless as a baby. — Oliver Sacks