Futuring Up Quotes

#1. Obama's gift for delivering set-piece oratorical tours de force had special resonance to Americans fed up with a president who could hardly string two words together without a collision of syntax and whose idea of clever was the single entendre.

Tina Brown

#2. I stepped from plank to plank So slow and cautiously; The stars about my head I felt, About my feet the sea. I knew not but the next Would be my final inch, - This gave me that precarious gait Some call experience.

Emily Dickinson

#3. It is the men of this land who are bloodthirsty and they lay their own guilt on the gods.

Edith Hamilton

#4. The car doesn't so much drive as float above the road, like we're making our way to Sydney in a hovercraft.

Elle Lothlorien

#5. The perfect aphorism would achieve classical balance and then immediately upset it.

Mason Cooley

#6. I would like to go fishing and catch a fish stick. That would be convenient. I could easily get a job at Mrs. Paul's.

Mitch Hedberg

#7. I hate dealing with the press. But I think it is a necessary evil.

Amy Carter

#8. And when in doubt, take all your clothes off,' said Caleb. 'What for?' 'Sign of a good berserk, taking all your clothes off. Frightens the hell out of the enemy. If anyone starts laughing, stab 'em one.

Terry Pratchett

#9. Present-day civilization is suffering from a lack of moral courage. So many people are in the inglorious business of keeping

Dean Merrill

#10. music is the great love of the People. If we sing a beautiful song, if we faithfully remember all the words, the People will never abandon us. Without the musician, all life would be loneliness.

Madeleine Thien

#11. Was it possible that i was, in the modern term, in denial?

Ian McEwan

#12. People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change, their needs change. When people have a need, it is their responsibility to themselves to see their needs are met. And it has absolutely nothing to do with you.

Iyanla Vanzant