Derricotte Quotes

#1. Why does everyone worship them? I mean, they're beautiful but ... " I shrugged. "Lots of people in this world are beautiful."
"They're popular because they're cheerleaders," he said.
I rolled my eyes. "What is it with this town and cheerleaders?

Sarra Cannon

#2. I've been in the Labour Party 50 years and it's 40-odd since I was elected to Parliament

Roy Hattersley

#3. People tried and failed to combine the words Izzy and Ymir. The closest they came was Izmir, but that had been the name of a city in Turkey.

Neal Stephenson

#4. It's nice to help remember somebody who really made a very positive difference in the world.

Mary Hart

#5. Poetry asks people to have values, form opinions, care about some other part of experience besides making money and being successful on the job.

Toi Derricotte

#6. The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.

Bjarne Stroustrup

#7. What was she thinking? Tarnished Silver? Brother. He probably practiced that smoldering look in the mirror so all women within a mile would fall over like nine pins when he smiled. Well, count her out. He was mouthwatering to look at, but so was cheesecake, and cheesecake was a heck of a lot safer.

Catherine Anderson

#8. If atheists are deaf to the word of God, then theists are blind to the ways of man.

Michael Palin

#9. These are the stories of travelers on a spiritual quest between worlds. Part mythmaker, part poet, Omar Castaeda is an original, and these stories are unlike any in our literature.

Toi Derricotte

#10. History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.

Gretel Ehrlich

#11. It;s all gone. My life is all gone and I can't work out why. I keep looking back over my life ... and I can't work out where it all went so wrong. What I did to make this happen.

Dorothy Koomson

#12. I don't know how i stay on my feet, why i don;t just shatter into dust right there, why my heart keeps beating when i want it so badly to stop

Lauren Oliver

#13. I haven't had an alcoholic drink in 22 years, but when I did drink I'd go for either Canadian whisky or Budweiser. Sometimes both. For a long time I used to think "Hey you, get off the floor!" was my name.

Alice Cooper

#14. Humility is often only a feigned submissiveness by which men hope to bring other people to submit to them; it is a more calculated sort of pride.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#15. I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.

Toi Derricotte

#16. Religion finds the love of happiness and the principles of duty separated in us; and its mission, its masterpiece, is to reunite them.

Alexandre Vinet

#17. People are salaried for the work they do, not the specific hours they sit at their desks. When you ding salaried employees for showing up five minutes late even though they routinely stay late and put in time on the weekend, you send the message that policies take precedence over performance.

Travis Bradberry

#18. lot of emotional poison from an injustice that comes from her husband.

Miguel Ruiz

#19.
What is more punished
among the angry than anger? among the unsatisfied than desire?
among the hate-filled
than hate? among the frightened than fear?

Toi Derricotte

#20. The job of the artist is not to resolve or beautify, but to hold complexities, to see and make clear.

Toi Derricotte