Weideman Construction Quotes & Sayings

Approximately eight hundred skeletons from the Dickson Mounds in the lower Illinois Valley have been analyzed. They reveal a clear picture of the health changes that accompanied the shift from foraging to corn farming around 1200 AD. Archaeologist George Armelagos and his colleagues reported that the farmers' remains show a 50 percent increase in chronic malnutrition, and three times the incidence of infectious diseases (indicated by bone lesions) compared with the foragers who preceded them. Furthermore, they found evidence of increased infant mortality, delayed skeletal growth in adults, and a fourfold increase in porotic hyperostosis, indicating iron-deficiency anemia in more than half the population. — Christopher Ryan

Racial discrimination does not always violate public policy. — Trent Lott

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it. — Duke Ellington

Audiences are the same all over the world, and if you entertain them, they'll respond. — Liza Minnelli

To be known by the public, honestly. People come up and tell them how good I make them feel. — David Alan Grier

What is saving my life now is the conviction that there is no spiritual treasure to be found apart from the bodily experiences of human life on earth. My life depends on engaging the most ordinary physical activities with the most exquisite attention I can give them. My life depends on ignoring all touted distinctions between the secular and the sacred, the physical and the spiritual, the body and the soul. What is saving my life now is becoming more fully human, trusting that there is no way to God apart from real life in the real world. — Barbara Brown Taylor

Before Luce could reply, a skinny, dark haired girl appeared in from of her, wagging her long fingers in Luce's face.
"Ooooooh," the girl taunted in a ghost-story-telling voice, dancing around Luce in a circle. "The reds are watching youuuu."
"Get out of here, Arriane, before I have you lobotimized," the attendant said, though it was clear from her first brief but genuine smile that she had some coarse affection for that crazy girl.
It was also clear that Arriane did not reciprocate the love. She mimed a jerking-off motion at the attendant, then stared at Luce, daring her to be offended. — Lauren Kate

Smiles can be deadlier than pistols, if used correctly. — Suzanne Enoch

Ensign Harry Kim stepped out from behind his station at operations, took my hand in a formal and extremely gracious manner, and said, "I'm Garrett Wang, and this is where you will always find me. Unless, of course, I'm promoted. — Kate Mulgrew

Sometimes things don't work out and the reason has nothing to do with you, or how good you are. — H.M. Ward

When it comes to the selections, I heard several observers claim that the Academy was embracing "nostalgia" by honoring The Artist and Hugo. Give me a break! Hugo represents cutting-edge storytelling by a world-class director - in 3-D, no less. The Artist dares to revisit a form of cinema that was abandoned in the late 1920s. The Academy members admired these films for making the past seem immediate and relevant. That has nothing to do with nostalgia; it has everything to do with great moviemaking, which is what the Academy Awards are all about. — Leonard Maltin

I've been to Paris France and I've been to Paris Paramount. Paris Paramount is better. — Ernst Lubitsch

You are always attracted towards what you can't be or what you are not or what you will never be.

If you don't know who you are, just know who you aren't.
Simple Introspection. — Bhavik Sarkhedi

I have no religion. But culturally I can't escape it; I'm very Jewish. — Sarah Silverman