Shelowitz And Parkland Quotes & Sayings

Most of the class was Black or Puerto Rican and we all loved music. But we hated music class with a passion. The teacher talked to us as though we were inferior savages, incapable of appreciating the finer things in life. She lectured about symphonies and concertos and sonatas and the like in a snooty voice. — Assata Shakur

I am insecure. If you ask me, everybody is. — Kate Winslet

I heard there's rumors on the Internets that we're going to have a draft. — George W. Bush

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. — Jean Nidetch

Looking back on my own career, I've come to the conclusion that too much money is worse than too little. — Guy Kawasaki

I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design. Random genetic drift can't produce wings that are good at flying, or eyes that are good at seeing, or legs that are good at running. But random genetic drift probably is very important in driving evolution at the molecular genetic level. — Richard Dawkins

The reason the contracts are so long is because actors are very spontaneous; we may want to do Shakespeare one day and be Porky Pig the next! — Jorja Fox

When I got back to Madison Avenue, I realized that copywriters made more than artists, so I switched. — Gary Jennings

A good print is really essential. I want to take strong documentary photographs that are as good technically as any of the best technical photographs, and as creative as any of the best fine-art photographs. [ ... ] I don't want to just be a photo essayist; I'm more interested in single images ... ones that I feel are good enough to stand on their own. — Mary Ellen Mark

Nothing exists in the intellect that has not first gone through the senses. — Plutarch

At times it seems to me that the distance between my writing and her reading is unbridgeable, that whatever I write bears the stamp of artifice and incongruity; if what I am writing were to appear on the polished surface of the page she is reading, it would rasp like a fingernail on a pane, and she would fling the book away with horror. — Italo Calvino

I always used to put my right boot on first, and then obviously my right sock. — Barry Venison