Inwood Quotes

#1. My mother would organize huge parties for my elementary school classmates. To prepare, she would go back to the bakery in her old neighborhood of Inwood and get special shamrock cookies. Hawaiian Punch was served and we had shamrock napkins. It was a lot of fun.

Christine Quinn

#2. In the seventeenth century the pound sterling was divided into twenty shillings (shortened to s.), and a shilling was divided into twelve pennies, or pence (shortened to d.). So an amount might be expressed as £2 10s 6d, or £2/10/6d.

Stephen Inwood

#3. There are people who stick in one's memory much more clearly after a brief acquaintance than others whom one sees day after day after a long period.

Elizabeth Kostova

#4. Moreover, if one selects a problem, works on it in isolation for a few years and finally solves it, there is a danger, unless the problem is very famous, that it will no longer be regarded as all that significant.

Timothy Gowers

#5. Yeah, I'm obnoxious, yeah, I cut people off, yeah, I'm rude. You know why? Because you're busy.

Bill O'Reilly

#6. I don't know why I feel so crazy ... I feel like I'm going through a stargate. Maybe it's the diet pills. Maybe it's Buddha.

Dawn French

#7. Galen went so far as to assert that no one could be a good doctor unless they were also a philosopher, and he prided himself, with justification, on his own philosophical ability.

Brad Inwood

#8. At Harvard I learned most uncomfortably that facts are facts. In Italy I learned that facts are the way you look at them.

Sean O'Faolain

#9. Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

Bob McNair

#10. I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life.

Eva Gabor

#11. I fear it as little as to drink a cup of tea.

Ned Kelly

#12. Life is so easy when you are young, she thinks. You can say and do almost anything, safe in the knowledge that an apology will make everything better. The older you get, the more impact those harmful words and deeds have. Once said, those words cannot be unspoken.

Jane Green

#13. We smile, because this is how we save the world.

Isaac Marion

#14. There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

Julie Roginsky

#15. In this way, I've learned that loving yourself requires a courage unlike any other. It requires us to believe in and stay loyal to something no one else can see that keeps us in the world - our own self-worth.

Mark Nepo

#16. I was too young to live on campus. I just went back and forth on the bus. Eventually I got my own car and thought I was Mr. Man, so I started hot wheelin' it.

Aldis Hodge