Refactoring Guru Quotes & Sayings

All the time, I'm afraid the thing that happened that made it all right for my mother to kill my sister could happen again. I don't know what it is, I don't know who it is, but maybe there is something else terrible enough to make her do it again. I need to know what that thing might be, but I don't want to. Whatever it is, it comes from outside this house, outside the yard, and it can come right on in the yard if it wants to. So I never leave this house and I watch over the yard, so it can't happen again and my mother won't have to kill me too. — Toni Morrison

Wisdom of the Ages: "Boxing Day" In the UK, the day after Christmas is named after the first activity that takes place between husband and wife after the Christmas receipts are added up. — Matthew D. Heines

You must relate athletic experiences to life. — Joe Paterno

In short, Europe's colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume. Rather, it was due to accidents of geography and biogeography - in particular, to the continents' different areas, axes, and suites of wild plant and animal species. That is, the different historical trajectories of Africa and Europe stem ultimately from differences in real estate. — Jared Diamond

'Unlikely Brothers' talks about the importance of citizen action and shows why and how we can make a difference. — John Prendergast

If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy. — Christian Louboutin

I was very introverted. I had glasses and was kind of weird. A lot of actors are pretty weird people. — Jennifer Sky

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they are found because it was possible to find them. — J. Robert Oppenheimer

You're undressing me," he said thickly.
"It can't be helped."
"Wasn't complaining. — Tessa Dare

The joy you find as a teen, however frivolous and dumb, is pure and meaningful. — Goldy Moldavsky

Do not put all your goods in hollow ships. — Hesiod