Evalyn Knapp Quotes

#1. The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that's also what the stereotype does.

Kara Walker

#2. He's dangerous, electric, impossible to contain. His body is rippling with an energy so extraordinary that even when he's calmed down it's almost palpable. It has a presence.

Tahereh Mafi

#3. Optimism is a revolutionary act

Cameron Crowe

#4. Alas for the unhappy man that is called to stand in the pulpit, and not give the bread of life.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. I want a brood, you know. I'd like to have a little soccer team and a minivan and all that stuff.

Taylor Kinney

#6. I went to Catholic school and they basically just said don't have sex, but would never explain anything.

Khloe Kardashian

#7. Many of the girls wear simple dresses to church. We do not make a point of 'dressing up,' nor do we study one another to see what is being worn. Nor does God. It's our hearts He views as we enter the doors to His church. Not our clothing.

Janette Oke

#8. Things are never as bad as they seem.

Harper Lee

#9. I'm not out there suggesting that we should ban every plastic product. But there are some whose environmental costs exceed their utility, and the [plastic] bag is one of them.

Susan Freinkel

#10. The opposite of what is noised about concerning men and things is often the truth.
[Fr., Le contraire des bruits qui courent des affaires ou des personnes est souvent la verite.]

Jean De La Bruyere

#11. I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

Roald Dahl

#12. The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance": "The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is, due to genetically prescribed talent. Instead, these differences reflect a life-long period of deliberate effort to improve performance.

K. Anders Ericsson

#13. I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.

Harry S. Truman

#14. Back in the mid-1970s, we adopted some fairly ambitious goals to improve efficiency of our cars. What did we get? We got a tremendous boost in efficiency.

Jay Inslee

#15. Spontaneous is what you get after the seventeenth draft.

John Ciardi