Tongues Untied Quotes & Sayings

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power. — Joshua Micah Marshall

My time at Honda was amazing. Some of my best times in Formula One, actually. I might not have won races, just one race, but I had a lot of fun. — Jenson Button

That lasting things do, in fact, last. — David Levithan

In this way a process of evolution was started that led to the development of more and more complicated, self-reproducing organisms. The first primitive forms of life consumed various materials, including hydrogen sulfide, and released oxygen. This gradually changed the atmosphere to the composition that it has today, and allowed the development of higher forms of life such as fish, reptiles, mammals, and ultimately the human race. — Stephen Hawking

I have to fight the dreams every night, brother. I can't do it in real life as well. — James L. Rubart

Population growing, swelling, bursting beyond the capability of the world to sustain so many human beings. Six billion people. Eight. Ten. Most of them starving, diseased, born in miserable poverty and dying in miserable poverty; surviving only long enough to make still more babies, half a million more each day. — Ben Bova

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind of repellent. — Judith Leiber

Don't take anything personally because by taking things personally you set yourself up to suffer for nothing. — Miguel Ruiz

We must get rid of the idea of fulfilling what people expect us to do, and start to do what we expect from our lives. — Paulo Coelho

I was at a restaurant, and I ordered a chicken sandwich, but I don't think the waitress understood me. She asked me, "How would you like your eggs?" I thought I would answer her anyway and said, "Incubated! And then raised, plucked, beheaded, cut up, put onto a grill, and then put onto a bun. Damn! I don't have that much time! Scrambled!" — Mitch Hedberg

It was a place where, if troubles did not vanish, they were made bearable. — Harper Lee

And then there's the way that people come here, earnest and full of dreams, believing that they can make a difference. That's the thing about DC - people are always leaving but that makes space for the new transplants, the crowds that keep flooding in, full of energy and wonder. — Jennifer Close

Reading Gypsy Boy, I felt invited into a secret society. I've always found Gypsies mysterious and even slightly dangerous, and Mikey Walsh does an excellent job describing the cloistered lifestyle and fascinating traditions of the Romani people. Moreover, Mikey's personal story of being a misfit among misfits is both compelling and universal. I cheered for him every step of the way. — Julia Scheeres