Wickelkommode Quotes & Sayings

Much fuss has been made over the idea of the frontier, as though it were a line advancing east to west, but the West was settled piece meal, and Indians fled in many directions to escape the tightening noose of the railroad lines and towns. — Rebecca Solnit

Efficiency in government is a more elusive concept than efficiency in the private economy, which may be measured relatively easily as output per units of input. What is the government's 'output?' — Nathan Myhrvold

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that? — Abbi Jacobson

Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind. — Agatha Christie

There is no etiquette rule that decrees one must give out personal information to anyone who asks. — Judith Martin

...as I have been thinking about this, I decided it might be better to be a broken man than a man who never risked breaking anything. — Douglas Wilson

Will gives us the ability to take an idea hold that idea and zero right in on something — Bob Proctor

Of course God does outrageous things. But in reality, what insanity would prompt me to follow a God who did anything less? — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that you'll be able to finish the particular work you've begun. It isn't easy to persist amid all that. [ ... ] Sometimes when I'm interviewed, the interviewer either compliments me on my 'talent', my 'gift' or asks me how I discovered it. [ ... ] I used to struggle to answer this politely, to explain that I didn't believe much in writing talent. People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or habit - was persistence. Without it, I would have given up writing long before I finished my first novel. It's amazing what we can do if we simply refuse to give up. — Octavia E. Butler

When I die, she said, I am coming back as a tree with deep roots and I'll wave my leaves to the children every morning on their way to school & whisper tree songs at night in their dreams. Trees with deep roots know about the things that children need. — Brian Andreas

Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say 'I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me' free you shall be. — Ramakrishna

prejudice unchallenged is prejudice perpetuated. — Christian Rudder