Salimata Lam Quotes & Sayings

At Columbia University, the semester had already started in the first week of September and here I was, in the middle of October. I arrived in New York on October 17, 1947. Crossing the Atlantic took one week. Most of the passengers were Americans of English, Irish or Scottish descent, who had visited their families, for the first time after the war. The food on the boat consisted mostly of fish, all kinds of seafood that I had never eaten before, that I knew only from reading and from dictionaries. Whether it was turbot or cod or hake or even salmon - everything was boiled and tasteless. — Pearl Fichman

There are many spokes on the wheel of life. First, we're here to explore new possibilities. — Ray Charles

Good work is not done by 'humble' men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate a little both the importance of his subject and his own importance in it. A man who is always asking 'Is what I do worthwhile?' and 'Am I the right person to do it?' will always be ineffective himself and a discouragement to others. He must shut his eyes a little, and think a little more of his subject and himself than they deserve. G. H. Hardy — Richard Davenport-Hines

It used to be embarrassing. In the beginning, because you listen to yourself so much, you think, I must look like an asshole right now - or sound like an asshole. And then, you just get to that point where you've done so many ridiculous, ridiculous things in the booth from screaming, to having orgasms, to whatever your director is asking you to do for this character, you just lose your inhibitions. — Rachael MacFarlane

I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one. — Tom Felton

Everyone can choose to live with a golden heart, it is a privilege of loving truly. — Angelica Hopes

Closing one's eyes when praying doesn't increase the odds of the prayer being answered. It merely decreases the odds of being distracted. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I often say that it's only people who have their skin in the business who'll work towards its success. — Subhash Chandra

We live in a country that used to have a can-do attitude, and now we have a 'what-can-you-do-for-me?' attitude, and what I try to do is find ways that we can develop common ground. — Ben Carson

People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. — Frederic Raphael

Fuck this. Let's just blow some shit up. — Mira Grant

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement — Herbert Hoover

The man of science is a poor philosopher. — Albert Einstein