October Celebrants Quotes & Sayings

By "West Sudan," for instance, an almost vanished term, people understood the whole gigantic stretch of savannah immediately south of the Sahara, from the Atlantic to Darfur in the country now known as Sudan. — Jurgen Osterhammel

Look for the best in people to build a fantastic team — Richard Branson

The philosophers have always given truth a bill of divorce, by separating what nature has joined together and vice versa. — Johann Georg Hamann

The librarian is a caricature of librarian - short white hair, horn-rimmed glasses, a bosom you could hide Christmas presents under and a New England-tight-ass face that looks like she hasn's taken a shit since her family came over on the Mayflower. — Bart Yates

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true. — Winston S. Churchill

They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five. — Robert Orben

I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller. — Lynn Coady

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations ... we could design a better world. — Dan Ariely

I pressed my head into the pillow and I screamed.
Pure sound. No words. But it all came out as your name. — David Levithan

There are beautiful examples of art done by chimpanzees in human care. — Frans De Waal