Extratropical Transition Quotes

#1. The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Malcolm X

#2. I never felt I left the stage.

Helen Gahagan

#3. When you meet a head of state, and you say, 'What is your most precious natural resource?' they will not say children at first, and then when you say, 'children,' they will pretty quickly agree with you.

Nicholas Negroponte

#4. Who am I kidding? I have no reason for being here other that the fact that I want to be near her.

Simone Elkeles

#5. The capacity for talking together constituted the foundation for democracy, far more fundamental than voting. As one ancient Greek philosopher noted, "When voting started, democracy ended.

William Isaacs

#6. Learning is nothing without cultivated manners, but when the two are combined in a woman, you have one of the most exquisite products of civilization.

Andre Maurois

#7. Jimmy Valentine looked into her eyes, forgetting at once what he was. He became another man.

O. Henry

#8. The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it

James Bryce