Professor Pericles Quotes & Sayings

I know that I am a black man in a white world ... I know that I never had it made. — Jackie Robinson

Vanity in an old man is charming. It is a proof of an open, nature. Eighty winters have not frozen him up, or taught him concealments. In a young person it is simply allowable; we do not expect him to be above it. — Christian Nestell Bovee

The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. — David Bowie

Nathan was something that happened to us, as devastating in its way as the burning roof that fell on the family Mwanza; with our fate scarred by hell and brimstone we still had to track our course. And it happened finally by the grace of hell and brimstone that I had to keep moving. I moved, and he stood still. — Barbara Kingsolver

The cheapest gadget - and you don't even have to spend a dime - is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters. — Jose Andres

Sometimes I get butterflies before I get up on stage. — Bindi Irwin

The road to happiness and prosperity lies in an organized diminution of work. — Bertrand Russell

The two men sat there together, in the kind of silence that's not empty because it has the thoughts of two longtime friends to fill it. — Suzette Haden Elgin