Smitko Text Quotes & Sayings

Nuclear industry proponents often assert that low doses of radiation (eg below 100mSV) produce no ill effects and are therefore safe. But , as the US National Academy of Sciences BEIR VII report has concluded, no dose of radiation is safe, however small, including background radiation; exposure is cumulative and adds to an individual's risk of developing cancer. — Helen Caldicott

The greatest dignity to be found in death is the dignity of the life that preceded it. This is a form of hope we call all achieve, and it is the most abiding of all. Hope resides in the meaning of what our lives have been. — Sherwin B. Nuland

I'm looking for smart friends all the time. — John Lloyd Young

Do not ever disturb prelude music for others, for reverence is essential to revelation — Boyd K. Packer

I was the only black girl at my junior high school. I had an afro, a Jamaican accent, I looked really old. — Grace Jones

New Jersey Mayor Corey Booker last night personally rescued a woman from a burning building. Or as Fox News reported it, 'black man loots house, steals white woman.' — Bill Maher

There are many ways to measure a manager's success and contributions to a franchise ... but in this case the two numbers that illustrate it best are eight and four: Bobby Cox's #6 jersey was just the eighth number retired in franchise history, and of the remaining seven, four of them played for Bobby. — Tucker Elliot

I will give them nightmares to haunt their dreams long after I'm gone. — Laini Taylor

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism. — Jodi Picoult

A work of art works because it is true, not because it is real. — Yann Martel

And it has always been the opinion and judgment of wise men that nothing can be so uncertain or unstable as fame or power not founded on its own strength. — Niccolo Machiavelli

If I had a stock of fabulous sounds I would just always use them. I wouldn't bother to find new ones. — Brian Eno

In place of science, the Eskimo has only magic to bridge the gap between what he can understand and what is not known. Without magic, his life would be one long panic. — Peter Farb