Offendene Quotes & Sayings

Most important part of doing physics is the knowledge of approximation. — Lev Landau

I think I'm more European in personality. — Sally Kirkland

Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name? — Fannie Lou Hamer

Now all politicians assume a necessity of control, the more efficient the control the better. — William S. Burroughs

In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one. — Herbert Spencer

It is practical, but that doesn't mean it's right. — Pittacus Lore

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice. — George Eliot

it becomes a problem when we mistake the stories in our minds for The Truth. — Martha N. Beck

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality
— Amartya Sen

Just the fact that I've lived more, and I'm not concerned about when I am going to get my next job anymore. This business is free-lance and it's not a steady job. Younger, I would have been more preoccupied with myself. — Raul Julia

When I started at the Globe 40 years ago, there were seven newspapers in Boston and now there are only two. There were only three or four television stations in Boston and now there are a dozen. — Will McDonough

Together they are a long skin interface, flowing sweat, close as muscles and bones can press, hardly a word beyond her name, or his. — Thomas Pynchon

We've outpaced Japan and Europe in creating new jobs, but there's major competition from India and China. It's not enough to make income tax cuts permanent. — Ernest Istook

Make a strong commitment to reach your full potential as a human being. — Nido R. Qubein

When she looked down the hall at Anne and at me it was as if she looked straight through us, as if we were nothing but clear panes of Venetian glass and all she wanted to know was what might be beyond. She did not seem to envy us, nor see us as rivals to her father's attention or even as a danger to her mother's place. She saw us as a pair of light women, so insubstantial that the wind might blow us away in a merciful puff. She — Philippa Gregory