Poetika Wikipedia Quotes & Sayings

The kind of job where you have to hustle and hustle and where you're not sure whether you will have enough clients next month, where you have less job security, is becoming much more common. — Erik Brynjolfsson

Testosterone should be a controlled substance. — Lisa Scottoline

I want to resume the life of a shy person. — Garrison Keillor

If I can but see one of my daughters happily settled at Netherfield," said Mrs. Bennet to her husband, "and all the others equally well married, I shall have nothing — Jane Austen

The techno-medical model of maternity care, unlike the midwifery model, is comparatively new on the world scene, having existed for barely two centuries. This male-derived framework for care is a product of the industrial revolution. As anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd has described in detail, underlying the technocratic mode of care of our own time is an assumption that the human body is a machine and that the female body in particular is a machine full of shortcomings and defects. Pregnancy and labor are seen as illnesses, which, in order not to be harmful to mother or baby, must be treated with drugs and medical equipment. Within the techno-medical model of birth, some medical intervention is considered necessary for every birth, and birth is safe only in retrospect. — Ina May Gaskin

Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man. — Mahatma Gandhi

I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure. — Tom Robbins

For a small, open economy like Cyprus, Euro adoption provides protection from international financial turmoil. — Jean-Claude Trichet

Comparisons are always welcomed when drawn in favor. — Pushpa Rana

Junior colleges are high schools with ashtrays. — Adam Carolla

Those who act as if they know more than their boss seldom do. — Malcolm Forbes