Ukiwa Nami Quotes & Sayings

One of the main destructive forces within our family has been these runaway egos. I think if you look at any show business family, that struggle exists. — Rufus Wainwright

Sometimes," said General Morpurgo, taking her hand, "dreams are all that separate us from the machines. — Dan Simmons

Adlai Stevenson, himself a notable speaker, often reminisced about his last meeting with Churchill. I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style. Churchill replied, "It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ." Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. "He was my model," Churchill said. "I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall." — William Bourke Cockran

Undiagnosed DID patients received incorrect diagnoses of schizophrenia in 25% to 40% of cases in two large series (Putnam, 1989; Ross, 1989), while in one stores 12% and in the other 16% had received electroconvulsive therapy. — Colin A. Ross

I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them. — George Eliot

Are we not witnessing a strange tableau of survival whenever a bird alights on the head of a crocodile, bringing together the evolutionary offspring of Triassic and Jurassic? — Anna Lee