Yousif Shamoo Quotes & Sayings

LANGUAGE, n. The music with which we charm the serpents guarding another's treasure. — Ambrose Bierce

As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul. — Dean Koontz

He who exercises wisdom, exercises the knowledge which is about God. — Epictetus

We have an understanding. I don't laugh at his skirt, and he doesn't rip my head off.
-Fi Skirata — Karen Traviss

The driving aesthetic of military style is uniformity. Whence the word uniform. From first inspection to Arlington National Cemetery, soldiers look like those around them: same hat, same boots, identical white grave marker. They are discouraged from looking unique, because that would encourage them to feel unique, to feel like an individual. The problem with individuals is that they think for themselves and of themselves, rather than for and of their unit. They're the lone goldfish on the old Pepperidge Farm bags, swimming the other way. They're a problem. — Mary Roach

Traveling in the segregated South for black people was humiliating. The very fact that there were separate facilities was to say to black people and white
people that blacks were so subhuman and so inferior that we could not even use public facilities that white people used. — Diane Nash

Other times, when existential crisis mode kicked in, I flirted with the idea of giving up and drifting whichever way gravity and wind moved me. — S.A. Tawks

I come from an interracial family: My father is from Nigeria, and so he is African-American, and my mother is American and white, so I rarely see skin color. It's never an issue for me. — Annie Ilonzeh

If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them. — Yogi Berra

I was very slow in maths, geometry I actually enjoyed. — Liam Neeson

The research I present in this book moves within a complex position: palpable tensions exist alongside exciting possibilities. CBPR methodologies emerged from critiques of conventional researcher-driven approaches and from scholarship and activism that names and problemitizes the power imbalances in current practices. CBPR strives to conduct research based in communities and founded upon core community values. With these broader critiques in mind, I wanted to consider how archaeology might be practiced if the concepts of decolonization and postcolonial theory were applied to the discipline. How might archaeological research change to create a reciprocal practice that truly benefits communities, at least as much as it benefits the scholarly interests of archaeologists? — Sonya Atalay

Pigpen hooks his foot around the metal folding chair Eli sat in weeks before and it scrapes against the tiles. — Katie McGarry