Essie Carmichael Quotes

#1. We had a great many horses, of which we gave Lewis and Clark what they needed, and they gave us guns and tobacco in return.

Chief Joseph

#2. I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Liang Chow

#3. Diet-related illnesses are causing nearly as many deaths as tobacco-related illnesses, not to mention the impact on quality of life when you start to develop adult-onset diabetes as a child, or all these other diet-related illnesses.

Anna Lappe

#4. Our sole responsibility is to produce something smarter than we are; any problems beyond that are not ours to solve ...

Ray Kurzweil

#5. My favourite thing is to be somebody else, no longer be me.

Andie MacDowell

#6. Robbie Brace, a practical man, had chosen a practical field. Oh, but how it depressed him.

Tess Gerritsen

#7. If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.

Ed Sullivan

#8. By the time this concert ends this evening, 30,000 Africans will have died because of extreme poverty. By this time tomorrow evening, another 30,000. This does not make sense.

Brad Pitt

#9. The good thing about being stuck at the airport for an extra hour, is that it gives you a chance to give weary travelers surprise massages.

Eugene Mirman

#10. The American Negro has no conception of the hundreds of millions of other non-whites' concern for him: he has no conception of their feeling of brotherhood for and with him.

Malcolm X

#11. Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.

James Martineau

#12. We saw too much beauty to be cynical, felt too much joy to be dismissive, climbed too many mountains to be quitters, kissed too many girls to be deceivers, saw too many sunrises not to be believers, broke too many strings to be pro's and gave too much love to be concerned where it goes ...

Glen Hansard

#13. 'Sanctus' was done on speculation. I had no agent or publisher. I was being sensible, I suppose, by writing a standalone novel. I figured if that one didn't work, no one would be interested in reading a sequel.

Simon Toyne