Towton Quotes & Sayings

I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests. — Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust. — David Mamet

We could take all the pleasures that have ever been and will ever be in all the universes and add them up into one experience. If you were absorbed in nirvana, it wouldn't be noticed. — Frederick Lenz

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals. — Robert M. Hutchins

Don't ask me about this building or that one, don't look at what I do, see what I see. — Luis Barragan

I'd run straight into a bulkhead trying to walk and receive data at the same time ... — Ann Leckie

DeLillo presents art as the soundest magic against dread, the truest source of radiance and community. Albeit tentatively and ambiguously, Underworld suggests that artists may achieve an accommodation with culture that is also act of resistance. (7) — Mark Osteen

It's clear, it's fresh, like a mint candy. — Margaret Atwood

I have my strong views and opinions. I really want to transform Illinois government because this state is failing the taxpayers and the children. — Bruce Rauner

I support GMOs. And we should label them. We should label them because that is the very best thing we can do for public acceptance of agricultural biotech. And we should label them because there's absolutely nothing to hide. — Ramez Naam

Warriors do not speak of such feelings. I love you too, son, but I won't be telling you so. — Julie Garwood

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time. — Louis Sullivan

I have never seen an Amity religious ceremony before. I am only familiar with the religion of my parents' faction, which part of me still holds to and the other rejects as foolishness - the prayers before dinner, the weekly meetings, the acts of service, the poems about a selfless God. This is something different, something mysterious. — Veronica Roth

Recall the cold
Of Towton on Palm Sunday before dawn,
Wakefield, Tewkesbury : fastidious trumpets
Shrilling into the ruck ; some trampled
Acres, parched, sodden or blanched by sleet,
Stuck with strange-postured dead. Recall the wind's
Flurrying, darkness over the human mire. — Geoffrey Hill

The national will is the supreme law of the Republic, and on all subjects within the limits of his constitutional powers should be faithfully obeyed by the public servant. — Martin Van Buren

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas. — Gary Paulsen