Powerpop Microwave Quotes & Sayings

To have an inner life, to think, to juggle and leap, to become a tightrope walker in the world of ideas. To attack, to riposte, to refute, what a contest, what acclaim. To understand. The most generous word of all. Memory. To retain, a geyser of felicity. Intelligence. The agonizing poverty of my mind. Words and ideas flitting in and out like butterflies. My brain a dandelion seed blown in the wind. — Violette Leduc

Education is the great American adventure, the world's most colossal democratic experiment. — Mary McLeod Bethune

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world. — Angela Ruggiero

Given the manifest frailty of men, given the long succession of delusions that was their history, what could be more preposterous than claiming oneself the least deluded, let alone privy to the absolute? — R. Scott Bakker

The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know. — Mickey Mantle

A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

to add more to their plates?" she asked, knowing the answer already. "The boys are ready for love and — Melody Anne

I settled back. Brett moved close to me. We sat up close against each other. I put my arm around her and she rested against me comfortably. It was very hot and bright, and the houses looked sharply white. We turned out onto the Gran Via.
"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "We could have have such a damned good time together."
"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so. — Ernest Hemingway,

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have. — Kirk Gibson

The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish his labor with every day, relinquishing all claim to the produce of his fields, and sacrificing in his mind not only his first but his last fruits also. — Henry David Thoreau

He looked natural and unrushed, and had obviously had a lot of experience at either chicanery or skulduggery, depending on which word was better suited for describing officially sanctioned mischief. — Jeff Lindsay