Thorning Mckay Quotes & Sayings

I used to eat a whole chicken, every day, for lunch. I did that for four years. But it got tiring - go to the store, buy it, eat it. It's a mess. — Adam Driver

We pretend that success is exclusively a matter of individual merit. But there's nothing in any of the histories we've looked at so far to suggest things are that simple. These are stories, instead, about people who were given a special opportunity to work really hard and seized it, and who happened to come of age at a time when that extraordinary effort was rewarded by the rest of society. Their success was not just of their own making. It was a product of the world in which they grew up. — Malcolm Gladwell

Sin is nothing else but the failure to recognize human wretchedness. — Simone Weil

the world market for cheap labor exceeds even the market for cheap sex. — Moises Naim

One of the reasons for going back into the past is that it's almost the only place that there's any drama. — Robert Towne

Human nature will not flourish, any more than a potato, if it be planted and replanted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn-out soil. My children have had other birthplaces, and, so far as their fortunes may be within my control, shall strike their roots into unaccustomed earth. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

I taught myself to name my name,
To bark back, loosen love and crying;
To ease my woman so she came,
To ease an old man who was dying. — W. D. Snodgrass

Hot legs, bring your Mother, too. — Rod Stewart

Adventure: the pursuit of life. — Jenny Radcliffe

I think it was hard for people to cast me as an ethnic, as an Asian American woman. — Chloe Bennet

To my knowledge nobody - no one who is publishing papers in the main field of AI - is even working on consciousness. I think there are some neuroscientists who are trying to understand it, but I'm not aware that they've made any progress. — Stuart J. Russell

grievances of the lowest classes mingled with — Howard Zinn