Serritella Carmichael Quotes & Sayings

Reality is constructed by our perception, and it does not actually exist without it. — Russell Eric Dobda

Her tears fell abundantly
but her grief was so truly artless, that no dignity could have made it more respectable in Emma's eyes
and she listened to her and tried to console her with all her heart and understanding
really for the time convinced that Harriet was the superior creature of the two
and that to resemble her would be more for her own welfare and happiness than all that genius or intelligence could do.
It was rather too late in the day to set about being simple-minded and ignorant; but she left her with every previous resolution confirmed of being humble and discreet, and repressing imagination all the rest of her life. — Jane Austen

In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all. — Aristotle.

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading and writing. — Daniel Pinkwater

I think the idea that you're somehow rejecting whiteness if you don't identify yourself as biracial is odd because everybody engages in whiteness. If you live in America, you're doing whiteness all the time, even if you have no white people in your family. — Melissa Harris-Perry

Let's trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let's lay down our righteousness and just be together. — Ram Dass

I was looking for a job and then I found a job, and heaven knows I'm miserable now. — Morrissey

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal, while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before — Herodotus

Who's more important than Diana Ross? — Don Cornelius

Gen was sleeping the sleep of the heavily drugged. — Ann Patchett

Alcohol didn't cause the high crime rates of the '20s and '30s, Prohibition did. And drugs do not cause today's alarming crime rates, but drug prohibition does. — James Carriger Paine

Audiences like to be challenged and to be actively involved and try to guess an outcome. — Andrew Scott

Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on. — Tor Norretranders

Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. — Roger Von Oech