Eastern Civilization Quotes

#1. I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

Thom Yorke

#2. One forgets that part of one's performance is one's history - or sometimes the lack of it. You're playing against what an audience knows, what they expect. This seems to be true of all performers; there's baggage that gets carried into the venue that we can't see.

David Byrne

#3. When Clinton took office, members of that community still faced a host of legal and cultural barriers. Sodomy laws banned same-sex acts, even in the privacy of one's bedroom, in more than half of the country's states plus the nation's capital.

Ann Bausum

#4. God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.

Bethany Hamilton

#5. (When asked what he thought of Western civilization): 'I think it would be a good idea.

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Men of power are unwilling to believe anything ill of their own kind.

Robin LaFevers

#7. I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with a passive or hereditary faith, which opens itself to light whencesoever it may come.

William Ellery Channing

#8. Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

Seth Godin

#9. All of the philosophers I studied were white (with a few Eastern exceptions), and, for that matter, they were all male. Africa, the cradle of civilization, seemed to have no footing in the highest form of human thought.

Walter Mosley

#10. I'm an actor that cares.

Joe Manganiello

#11. What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#12. Love usually transcends the limits of our physical existence to connect us with the beauty of life all around - Ashutosh (Page 10)

Shashi

#13. I wanted to be an architect. I used to draw houses and buildings and construct buildings on my own.

Boyd Holbrook

#14. I never did mind about the little things.

Bridget Fonda