Sequoias For Sale Quotes & Sayings

I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too. — Chris Abani

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured? — Stefan Zweig

The Historical Point of View, put briefly, means that when a learned man is presented with any statement in an ancient author, the one question he never asks is whether it is true. He asks who influenced the ancient writer, and how far the statement is consistent with what he said in other books, and what phase in the writer's development, or in the general history of thought, it illustrates, and how it affected later writers, and how often it has been misunderstood (specially by the learned man's own colleagues) and what the general course of criticism on it has been for the last ten years, and what is the "present state of the question. — C.S. Lewis

I refuse to dance. And I can't dance anyway. I'm not in a band for that. — Liam Gallagher

If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion. — Mariah Carey

Most processes leave out the stuff no one wants to talk about: magic, intuition and leaps of faith. — Michael Bierut

You have a voice in your head that keeps saying things...haven't you noticed. — Sam Harris

Grey doesn't do nice. He does polite, maybe. And — E.L. James

If nobody trusts you as president, then you can't get anything done. — Robert Dallek