1920s Flapper Sayings

#1. What we are doing in educating students is trying to prepare them to live more fulfilling lives for the decades after they graduate. And trying to provide a better, richer, fairer, more decent society for the generations after.

Derek Bok

#2. For years, I had no time for exploratory travel.

Renee Fleming

#3. Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!

Agatha Christie

#4. I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

Ryan Reynolds

#5. If you protect your routine, eventually it will protect you.

Barbara Oakley

#6. Because we [people] have an intellect, part of what we do is try to understand the "intelligent design." Everything we don't know is "intelligent design." Everything we do know is science.

George Lucas

#7. Real Love truthfully sees the flaws - and still really loves fully.

Ann Voskamp

#8. Reduce the stress levels in your life through relaxation techniques like meditation, deep breathing, and exercise. You'll look and feel way better for it.

Suzanne Somers

#9. Sometimes you make bad choices to keep yourself from making other, even worse ones. Or at least that's what I tell myself.

Kate Karyus Quinn

#10. Night came early to this neighborhood, the sun fleeing the sky, leaving heaven black and blue.

Lisa Scottoline

#11. ( ... )"Flapper" - the notorious character type who bobbed her hair, smoked cigarettes, drank gin, sported short skirts, and passed her evenings in steamy jazz clubs, where she danced in a shockingly immodest fashion with a revolving cast of male suitors.

Joshua Zeitz

#12. God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

Desmond Tutu

#13. Ambiguity is not, today, a lack of data, but a deluge of data.

Paul Gibbons