Powdermaker Hall Quotes & Sayings

It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime. — Cornelia Otis Skinner

I love you. We're getting married, and that's the way it is. Get used to it. — Julie Garwood

The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do ... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how. — Donald Barthelme

The future of desegregation was not just about reaching mere numerical diversity. It was about fostering radical diversity, the wild protean sort. It was about what might flower when people could really meet across the lines. The cover of the fifth volume of the Yardbird Reader, rendered in day-bright Oakland A's yellow and green, featured the collective caught as they laughed at someone's wisecrack. They looked simultaneously hip and welcoming. In this colorized vision of American renewal, everyone could share in the joy. — Jeff Chang

Well, I'm ... first and foremost I'm a theater guy and everything that I know comes from the theater. — Scott Bakula

White people who are doing this work need to make their stories known to serve as guides for others. — Beverly Daniel Tatum

The day succeeding this remarkable Midsummer night, proved no common day. I do not mean that it brought signs in heaven above, or portents on the earth beneath; nor do I allude to meteorological phenomena, to storm, flood, or whirlwind. On the contrary: the sun rose jocund, with a July face. Morning decked her beauty with rubies, and so filled her lap with roses, that they fell from her in showers, making her path blush: the Hours woke fresh as nymphs, and emptying on the early hills their dew-vials, they stepped out dismantled of vapour: shadowless, azure, and glorious, they led the sun's steeds on a burning and unclouded course. — Charlotte Bronte

And suddenly I started to cry. Serious sobs, the kind where your stomach hurts and you can't breathe and there's snot running down your face. I was crying so hard I couldn't even mute the sounds I was making, and Luke put his hand on my back and I thought about how everyone would think that I was crying because of Stacy's fucking speech and I wanted to kill someone. I wanted to kill someone and I wanted to die and I wanted to run as far and as fast as I could. — Melissa Kantor

For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth. — Mahatma Gandhi

A human act once set in motion flows on forever to the great account. Our deathlessness is in what we do, not in what we are. — George Meredith

Coach Lombardi showed me that by working hard and using my mind, I could overcome my weakness to the point where I could be one of the best. — Bart Starr

Ninety nine failed solutions equals a gain of 99 pieces of information. — Albert Einstein

You don't have to climb a mountain to find out whether or not it's high. — Paulo Coelho

One clear focus for everyone. Your business needs laser focus on what the next objective is. Execution is key. — Ben Keighran

We dress them [children] in the presumptions of the world. They are the bright small face of hope. They are the last belief we have, the belief in making them believe. — E.L. Doctorow