Witali Tschurkin Quotes & Sayings

I love physical sunblocks with zinc. When I used to surf, I'd sometimes tuck a bottle of sunscreen into my wet suit sleeve - when you're in the water having a great time, you're not thinking about running out to put on more sunblock. — Carolyn Murphy

Tremendous beauty and tremendous ugliness puts you on the outside of things. — Peter Bogdanovich

She seemed to fold into herself, like a pleated wing. Her pain antagonized me. I wanted to open her up, crisp her edges, ram a stick down that hunched and curving spine, force her to stand erect and spit the misery out on the streets. But she held it in where it could lap up into her eyes. — Toni Morrison

I seem to have to make my characters family before I can access their hearts in any way that matters. — Junot Diaz

There's a quote from Stalin," he says. "'A single death is a tragedy; a million is a statistic.' Can you imagine seven billion of anything? I have trouble doing it. It pushes the limits of our ability to comprehend. And that's exactly why they did it. Like running up the score in football. You played football, right? It isn't about destroying our capability to fight so much as crushing our will to fight. — Rick Yancey

I've always traveled, as a kid my parents moved me around, a different place in Germany every four years. But I got the travel bug when I was a kid, living in different countries. — Dominic Monaghan

The students who feel alienated by current systems of standardization and testing may walk out the door, and it's left to them and others to pay the price in unemployment benefits and other social programs. These problems are not accidental by-products of standardized education; they are a structural feature of these systems. They were designed to process people according to particular conceptions of talent and economic need and were bound to produce winners and losers in just those terms. And they do. Many of these "externalities" could be avoided if education genuinely gave all students the same opportunities to explore their real capabilities and create their best lives. — Ken Robinson

No country is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theater of war. — Ambrose Bierce

The man who has no vision will undertake no great enterprise. — Woodrow Wilson

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy. — Gordon Brown

All the muddy waters of my life cleared up when I gave myself to Christ. — Mickey Rooney