Abducts Upper Quotes

#1. We need a language that lets us scribble and smudge and smear, not a language where you have to sit with a teacup of types balanced on your knee and make polite conversation with a strict old aunt of a compiler.

Paul Graham

#2. In New York, if you weigh under 200 pounds and decline so much as a cookie at a co-worker's party, women will flock to your side, assuring you of your appealing physique. This is how skittish we are about the dangers of anorexia and the pressures of body image.

Sloane Crosley

#3. If you don't like a language, you can go write your own.

Helen DeWitt

#4. I don't like reality shows and have never watched them, but I'm addicted to 'Real Housewives' because it's authentic old-time soap opera reborn!

Camille Paglia

#5. She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life.

John Mason Brown

#6. My constant daily question is, "What is the best thing I can do now in this situation, given these circumstances? Much is provided; now what is required from me?

Lama Surya Das

#7. And, honestly, if somebody wants to criticize me for not being a trainwreck, that's fine with me!

Taylor Swift

#8. The choices we make now will shape the future of not just our countries, but the world at large. We should intensify our cooperation in confronting global challenges like Terrorism, Cyber Security and Climate Change.

Narendra Modi

#9. Helplessness is the real secret and the impelling power of prayer.

Ole Hallesby

#10. You are like Odysseus, who could go out onto the great sea, lose all his goods and his friends, come to the boundaries of death, and return still himself.

Gillian Bradshaw

#11. Show me somebody who has never experienced love and I'll show you what a real zombie looks like.

Ben Tolosa

#12. To have meaningful work is a tremendous happiness.

Rita Mae Brown

#13. She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn't heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.

Jeremy Tiang

#14. A productive coaching relationship begins with two people with fires in their bellies: one who wants desperately to move forward and another who yearns to help that person make the journey.

James A. Belasco