Twloha Jamie Tworkowski Quotes & Sayings

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to make ourselves more than animated dust, and we must have a story to tell about where we came from, and why we are here. — E. O. Wilson

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ. — Thomas Watson

He who builds walls to create exclusion for others builds walls across his own freedom; — Anonymous

For those of you who are about to embark on reading The Math Book from cover to cover, look for the connections, gaze in awe at the evolution of ideas, and sail on the shoreless sea of imagination. — Clifford A. Pickover

-"Great! Fucking! News! What would be the best thing that could ever happen?"
-"If after I died, I was reincarnated as Meg White?"
-"Okay, the second-best thing. — Robin Benway

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. — Jack Lemmon

It is simply a confession that with all that I've seen in the last few years, all the events I've been invited to, and all the people whom I've met, I am less and less impressed by "impressive" things or people who are presented as having things figured out. I am impressed by people who are honest and kind. I am inspired by moments of vulnerability, moments of confession and compassion, moments where someone makes it clear that they are a person in need of other people and someone else makes it clear that the first person is not alone. — Jamie Tworkowski

I sincerely wish you may find it convenient to come here. the pleasure of the trip will be less than you expect, but the utility greater. it will make you adore your own country, it's soil, it's climate, it's equality, liberty, laws, people & manners. my god! how little do my countrymen know ... — Thomas Jefferson

When any significant change takes place in the moral standards of a community, it is immediately reflected in a general shifting of the meanings of common words. — Owen Barfield

Without a band, I'm much more free to improvise. — Jewel

I lived to write, and wrote to live. — Samuel Rogers

Something in me will save me from utter ruin no matter what comes. — Tennessee Williams

Large-scale enthusiasm for folk music began in 1958 when the Kingston Trio recorded a song, "Tom Dooley," that sold two million records. This opened the way for less slickly commercial performers. Some, like Pete Seeger, who had been singing since the depression, were veteran performers. Others, like Joan Baez, were newcomers. It was conventional for folk songs to tell a story. Hence the idiom had always lent itself to propaganda. Seeger possessed an enormous repertoire of message songs that had gotten him blacklisted by the mass media years before. Joan Baez cared more for the message than the music, and after a few years devoted herself mainly to peace work. — William L. O'Neill

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority. — Jane Austen

I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude. — Chuck Smith

There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors force and impact against a cohort of high school players around the country? — John Battelle