Pignatello Nicole Quotes & Sayings

I have made mistakes - mighty big ones at that. Not the kind that would cause a national fiscal deficit a-la Manmohan Singh or ruin some unassuming person's life, but the kind that makes you go into face palm mode and want to die every time you are reminded of them. — Shuchi Singh Kalra

The killer whale Tilikum has helped SeaWorld sell millions of dollars worth of tickets. — Jane Velez-Mitchell

Use only things you find around the bathroom to create something. Extra credit: make it in the bathroom! — Noah Scalin

The crime series, books and other types of works have in one in mind... and that's learning. — Deyth Banger

The technological efficiency of daughter-proofing a pregnancy may make it seem as if the girl shortage is a problem of modernity, but female infanticide has been documented in China and India for more than two thousand years.119 In China, midwives kept a bucket of water at the bedside to drown the baby if it was a girl. In India there were many methods: "giving a pill of tobacco and bhang to swallow, drowning in milk, smearing the mother's breast with opium or the juice of the poisonous Datura, or covering the child's mouth with a plaster of cow-dung before it drew breath." Then and now, even when daughters are suffered to live, they may not last long. Parents allocate most of the available food to their sons, and as a Chinese doctor explains, "if a boy gets sick, the parents may send him to the hospital at once, but if a girl gets sick, the parents may say to themselves, 'Well, we'll see how she is tomorrow. — Steven Pinker

Humble people can do great things with uncommon perfection because they are no longer concerned about their own interests and their own reputation, and therefore they no longer need to waste their efforts in defending them. — Thomas Merton

Truth is a fruit that can only be picked when it is very ripe. — Voltaire

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment. — Leigh Hunt

The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it. — Jackie Gleason

The honor paid to a wise man is a great good for those who honor him. — Epicurus