Shaleka Norris Quotes & Sayings

Underhand euphemism are used, not so much to conceal offence and to deliberately disguise a topic and deceive — Kate Burridge

But you must stop playing among his ghosts
it's stupid and dangerous and completely pointless. He's trying to lay them to rest here, not stir them up, and you seem eager to drag out all the sad old bones of his history and make them dance again. It's not nice, and it's not fair. — Patricia A. McKillip

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them ... — James Anthony Froude

One of my theories about why we've been cranky is Australians have been forced to focus on politics or party politics a little bit more than they normally would. — Yitzhak Rabin

I've met women who have way better bodies in their 40s because they've been working on them for all these years. — Claudia Schiffer

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

The moral of the story? Don't fuck with the magical order. — Chloe Neill

All science is based on models, and every scientific model comprises three distinct stages: statement of well-defined hypotheses; deduction of all the consequences of these hypotheses, and nothing but these consequences; confrontation of these consequences with observed data. — Maurice Allais

I think cities are the primordial forests of our time. We evolve faster as a species in cities. Cities are chaotic, liminal places where the many aspects of human potential, good and/or bad, are most readily magnified. — Chris Abani

I just think the word interview, although it is the view between two people exchanged, became a sort of cliche. You ask questions and the other one answers. — Maximilian Schell

I revel in flowers without let,
An atom at random in space;
My soul dwells in regions ethereal,
And the world is my dreaming-place. — L. Cranmer-Byng

He would be able to suffer what his son had suffered. He would be able to suffer and his suffering would for an instance displace his grief. — Simon Lelic