Undistorted Map Quotes & Sayings

Robert Farris Thompson, America's most prominent historian of African art, says that funky is derived from the Ki-Kongo lu-fuki, meaning "positive sweat" of the sort you get from dancing or having sex, but not working. One's mojo, which has to be "working" to attract a lover, is Ki-Kongo for "soul." Boogie comes from mbugi, meaning "devilishly good." And both jazz and jism likely derive from dinza, the Ki-Kongo word for "to ejaculate. — Christopher Ryan

For I cannot think that GOD Almighty ever made them [women] so delicate, so glorious creatures; and furnished them with such charms, so agreeable and so delightful to mankind; with souls capable of the same accomplishments with men: and all, to be only Stewards of our Houses, Cooks, and Slaves. — Daniel Defoe

The remark has been made that in the Civil War the North reaped the victory and the South the glory. — Richard M. Weaver

What I like best about San Francisco is San Francisco. — Frank Lloyd Wright

I have said from the beginning, I would spend what it would take for the people of Connecticut to know who I am and what I stand for. — Linda McMahon

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor. — Frank Lloyd Wright

The tincture of night began to diffuse the soup of the afternoon.
Lord Vetinari considered the sentence, and found it good. He liked 'tincture' particularly. Tincture. Tincture. It was a distinguished word, and pleasantly countered by the flatness of 'soup'. Yes. In which may well be found the croutons of teatime. — Terry Pratchett

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers. — Patricia A. Woertz

I do get scared, but I think - like it says in another book I've read - feel the fear and do it anyway. I try to have courage, pray a little bit and work through it. I'd rather try, even if I fail. — Geri Halliwell

You were the best thing that ever happen to me. I hope that someday I can say you were one of the best, but for now, it's only you. — Penelope Ward

Black-ish is really a show about an American family and these are some of the topics that come up - for all of us, in different ways - and we get to see how this family is walking through it. — Tracee Ellis Ross