Prof Mills Quotes & Sayings

Culture hides more than it reveals, and strangely enough what it hides, it hides most effectively from its own participants. — Edward T. Hall

The previous regime ... reduced man to a means of production and nature to a tool of production. Thus it attacked both their very essence and their mutual relationship. It reduced gifted and autonomous people to nuts and bolts in some monstrously huge, noisy, and stinking machine. — Vaclav Havel

She pulled up to the garage in front of Nordstrom (no matter where she was going in the mall, she liked to enter through Nordstrom) — Beth Harbison

Engineers love to optimize problems. Now I optimize logistical problems. I ask: 'What's the goal? What are our constraints? What is the optimal, elegant way to get to that goal within those constraints?' I break it down in terms of a data funnel: 'Where in the funnel are we inefficient?' That analytical background really helps. — Ruchi Sanghvi

Many people who excel are self-taught. — Herb Ritts

The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions, all the great movements, all the great political ideology, say let us make the human being as equal as possible. In fact, he is not equal, never will be. — Lee Kuan Yew

Will you keep me safe?" she whispered.
"I promise."
"Then I'll go anywhere with you. — J.L. Bryan

We must go for a day in the country and when surrounded by the gay twittering of the birds and the smell of the cows I will lay my suit at her feet and he waved his arm wildly at the gay thought. — Daisy Ashford

That old funny-shaped bit of wood is still staring me in the face every day saying 'come on, you haven't started yet!' It's infinite. — Jeff Beck

She was completely alone, only the distant call of a bird telling her a world existed outside of her circle of pain. — Roseanna M. White

It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being. — Benjamin Disraeli

Somehow the idyllic existence I envisioned never quite came to pass, but aside from the occasional culinary disaster, my marriage wasn't bad. — Alexandra Bogdanovic

Ultimately, the courts will make the final judgment whether the White House has gone too far. Independent and impartial judges must assess the proper balance between protecting our liberties and protecting our national security. — Edward Kennedy

I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die. — Lil' Wayne

Riches, perhaps, do not so often produce crimes as incite accusers. — Samuel Johnson