Skullett Quotes & Sayings

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow. — Elfriede Jelinek

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time. — Norman Cousins

Reason tells the soul how mistaken it is in thinking that all these earthly things are of the slightest value by comparison with what it is seeking. A little recollection reminds it that all these things come to an end. And faith instructs it in what the soul must do to find satisfaction ... — Eknath Easwaran

Nobody is in the school yard when I get there, except for a few guys hanging near the fence. I recognize a couple of them from the forbidden Latin lunch table. I walk fast, trying not to be noticed, but, of course, they have to go out of their way to call me out. "Move that junk, mami!" one of them calls, making squeezing motions with his hands. I don't turn around to give him the finger, though I probably should. Instead, I hurry up the steps two at a time. — Meg Medina

But all our phrasing - race relations, racial chasm, racial justice, racial profiling, white privilege, even white supremacy - serves to obscure that racism is a visceral experience, that it dislodges brains, blocks airways, rips muscle, extracts organs, cracks bones, breaks teeth. You must never look away from this. You must always remember that the sociology, the history, the economics, the graphs, the charts, the regressions all land, with great violence, upon the body. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Nordic welfare model is in many aspects a good model but it needs more of a choice for individuals. — Fredrik Reinfeldt

The differences between Secretary Clinton and Donald Trump in terms of temperament, in terms of values, couldn't be more stark. — Thomas Perez

As God is my witness, the more I deal with women, the more I like my cat. — P.N. Elrod

When you think of what Americans accomplished, building these amazing cities and all the good it's done in the world, it's kind of disheartening to hear so much hatred of America, not just from abroad, but internally. — Frank Miller

To AMC's credit, I think what they saw was the show doesn't exist in the marketplace. They knew that there was a hunger for a martial arts show. They also knew that you have this strong tradition of martial arts cinema, so even though it's not branded by a novel or a comic book or an old movie or something, we do have the genre itself, which people love. — Alfred Gough

The greatest moments are right in front of you. — Matthew Knisely

Is that a banana in your lunch box, or are you just pleased to see me? — H.M. Forester

Yeah, I think it's an absolute disaster that Australia, the government, allowed kangaroo culling. — Steve Irwin

The life is a wonderful thing. You have to appreciate it NOW ... because you never know what is going to happen tomorrow. — Ekaterina Gordeeva

No human being has the faculty of originally creating matter, which is more than nature itself can do. But any one may avail himself of the agents offered him by nature, to invest matter with utility. — Jean-Baptiste Say