Sowder Quotes & Sayings

It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation. — Hannah More

I hated high school. It was a prison. — Alan Alda

As a young girl, I remember singing CeCe Penniston's 'Don't Walk Away.' It was like my jam. — Elle Varner

Lyric poetry is, of course, musical in origin. I do know that what happened to poetry in the twentieth century was that it began to be written for the page. When it's a question of typography, why not? Poets have done beautiful things with typography - Apollinaire's 'Calligrammes,' that sort of thing. — James Fenton

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. — Lauren DeStefano

Putting your best foot forward at least keeps it out of your mouth. — Morris Mandel

The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. — Mohsen Makhmalbaf

This is another thing that quantitative studies of American time use cannot show you: for the majority of mothers, time is fractured and subdivided, as if streaming through a prism; for the majority of fathers, it moves in an unbent line. — Jennifer Senior

When we combine the set of whole numbers with their opposites, including zero, we
obtain a set of numbers we call integers. That — Judith Sowder

What we are witnessing is the birth of something I call 'Polisdigitocracy.' This is a form of government that counts participation and transparency as its cornerstones and uses technology as its guide. The digital revolution is allowing democracy to recall its foundations and evolution is modernizing and reinforcing our fundamental values. — Eduardo Paes