Herdman Kids Quotes

#1. The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.

Louis Dudek

#2. I've always liked Muir without knowing quite why.

Douglas Dunn

#3. Soon levees up and down the river were popping like buttons off a tight shirt. At Mounds Landing, Mississippi, a hundred black workers, kept at their posts by men with rifles, were swept to oblivion when a levee gave way. The coroner, for reasons unstated, recorded just two deaths.

Bill Bryson

#4. Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Atul Gawande

#5. I swear I've spent half my life hiding behind a couch and the other half wondering why no one was paying attention to me. On

Sarah Hepola

#6. Most people feel that the world looks like the photograph. I've always assumed that the photograph is nearly right, but that little bit by which it misses makes it miss by a mile. This is what I grope at.

Martin Gayford

#7. We work our whole lives trying to get rich so we can impress the world with our fancy houses and cars, but in the end it doesn't matter how much money we make. What matters most are the choices we make, and unfortunately I made some very bad choices.

J.S. Bailey

#8. The only currency isn't money. For me, it's about how can you build a good business that's also a social business.

Elliott Bisnow

#9. We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Ezra Pound

#10. It is a myth to think that sometimes creative disagreement doesn't necessarily produce a better result.

Gavid Hood