Slockbowers Quotes & Sayings

Americans ... publish more books than any other country, but the per capita figure is surprisingly low. Of the English-speaking nations, the United States comes in fifth, behind the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. The United Kingdom publishes 2,336 books per person, the United States 545. — Lewis Buzbee

She would initiate three "races to the top" from the federal level - with prizes of $100 million, $75 million, and $50 million - to vastly accelerate innovations in social technologies: Which state can come up with the best platform for retraining workers? Which state can design a pilot city or community of the future where everything from self-driving vehicles and ubiquitous Wi-Fi to education, clean energy, affordable housing, health care, and green spaces is all integrated into a gigabit-enabled platform? Which city can come up with the best program for turning its public schools into sixteen-hour-a-day community centers, adult learning centers, and public health centers? We need to take advantage of the fact that we have fifty states and hundreds of cities able to experiment and hasten social innovation. In — Thomas L. Friedman

In a republican land the power behind the throne is the power. — Maria Weston Chapman

There's nothing wrong with wearing a hat and cowboy boots if you want to be a country singer. But when you open your mouth, have something new to say. Have your own style. — Pam Tillis

Every purely natural object is a conductor of divinity, and we have but to expose ourselves in a clean condition to any of these conductors, to be fed and nourished by them. Only in this way can we procure our daily spirit bread. — John Muir

I should look like someone I would want to see. — Diane Williams

Much of the debate over global warming is predicated on fear, rather than science. — James Inhofe

We sometimes reveal how ignorant or bored we were when we read a book by giving it 5-stars. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You Look Great Without a Nose, Really — Rick Riordan

This has ever been the fate of energy in security; it takes to art and to eroticism, and then comes languor and decay. — H.G.Wells