John Tusa Quotes

#1. There is something about fashion that can make people really nervous.

Anna Wintour

#2. Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks.

Alcee Hastings

#3. Meanwhile everything matters - that concerns you.

Edith Wharton

#4. When casting pebbles into water, look at the ripples being formed thereby. Otherwise this activity will be an empty amusement.

K. Prutkov

#5. He [Omar Khayyam] is an atheist, but knows how to interpret in orthodox style the most difficult passages of the Koran; for every educated man is a theologian and faith is not a requisite.

Jorge Luis Borges

#6. I shall go wherever I am asked to participate for freedom.

Mary Tyler Peabody Mann

#7. Management that wants to change an institution must first show that it loves that institution.

John Tusa

#8. Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.

Graham Nelson

#9. Enjoy thy stream, O harmless fish; And when an angler for his dish, Through gluttony's vile sin, Attempts, the wretch, to pull thee out, God give thee strength, O gentle trout, To pull the rascal in!

John Wolcot

#10. I have, my whole life, been healing the girl inside, the part of me that struggles about being a female in the world. That's why I write about the things I write about.

India.Arie

#11. What was your one goal, Sari?
To be quite.

Kele Moon

#12. Writing. Not writing. Twin Terrors. Putting one's mother into words ... It may have been easier to put her in her grave.

William H Gass

#13. It's taboo in our society to discuss abortion on anything less than a political level, but I know the truth. Someone close to each and every one of us has had an abortion. The experience is common, but I do not believe it is taken lightly. Women who have exercised their right to choose never forget.

Susan Wicklund

#14. Bow to nothing, son. I make mistakes as well as any man. If you think me wrong, be so good as to damn well say so.

David Gemmell

#15. I'm pretty healthy and I don't mind the idea of dying, but I also don't want to get mowed down by some freaky high school kid in a trench coat who's high on Zoloft and has traded in his Xbox for a semiautomatic.

Ruth Ozeki

#16. Wonder is not precisely knowing.

Emily Dickinson