Biracial Protagonist Quotes

#1. I saw her note the way I hovered over the various ethnicities on the form. First the 'white' box, then to the airspace over the 'black' box, a kind of momentary hesitation, a protest of stillness, a staring into the abyss of everything I did not know about myself. She, like me, was made of halves.

Olivia Sudjic

#2. Choosing an agent is like picking a college. They give you a pitch, you hear what they've got to say, you hear what they're going to do for you. Ultimately it's a good gut reaction.

Diana Taurasi

#3. I went into a church and simply said, 'Goodbye.' It is the terrible unfairness of life. How could God allow cancer, poverty, the sheer unfairness of so many lives? That is the question which finishes it for me.

Ruth Rendell

#4. Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

Arthur Eddington

#5. In the uproar, the confusion
of accents and inflections
how will you hear me when I open my mouth?
Look for me, one of the drab population
under fissured edifices, fractured
artifices. Make my various
names flock overhead,
I will follow you.

Li-Young Lee

#6. Everything is design. Everything!

Paul Rand

#7. I think that is the big danger in keeping a diary: you exaggerate everything.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#8. I have always respected education, which is why I actually went back secretly and taught school for eight years.

Steve Wozniak

#9. You have to know where you were going in order to get there.

Suzanne Weyn

#10. Stored procedures can offer huge performance advantages for huge architectural costs. You may avoid streaming thousands of rows to a client application, but you have also bound your application code to this database. The decision to use stored procedures should not be arrived at lightly.

Eric Redmond

#11. I still feel, as I did when I was six or seven, that books are simply the best way to experience a story.

Philip Reeve

#12. No matter how much we change, it's the woman who has to carry a baby in womb, and the man who has to light the fire

Nikhil Kushwaha

#13. I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I cook it: it's for eating, preferably with friends, and I don't make a fetish out of it.

Steve Albini

#14. Several years later, after the Freedom of Information Act was passed, it was revealed that Cotton had been working undercover for the police.

Assata Shakur