Edsell Burris Quotes

#1. Do you realize that in the past sixty years, the only foreigners the French have been able to drive out are American tourists?

Robert Orben

#2. Nothing crushes freedom as substantially as a tank.

Shirley Temple

#3. I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.

C.S. Lewis

#4. You want to help. That's fine but do you know how you want to help? The intent may be good, but without the way, you are lost.

Arnab Ray

#5. Maintaining one's vigilance against biases is a chore - but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.

Daniel Kahneman

#6. I was a lot more cultured than the other kids in my high school. Because I traveled, I understood different cultures and had a more worldly view. Most of the people I went to high school with had never been outside of California.

Tony Hawk

#7. There is always the next big thing, the next big skater.

Gracie Gold

#8. He is no longer a city dweller who has even once in his life caught a ruff or seen how, on clear and cool autumn days, flocks of migrating thrushes drift over a village. Until his death he will be drawn to freedom.

Anton Chekhov

#9. The middlebrow, I hate.

Leslie Fiedler

#10. Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

Joyce Carol Oates