Kadonomise Quotes

#1. I would have to confess that in the land of the toubabu, I had managed to save only myself.

Lawrence Hill

#2. around here." She changed the subject and rose to her feet. "And

Debra Burroughs

#3. I often play on the cello-bass side of the orchestra, because I prefer the deep sounds. I can't hear the violins well.

Evelyn Glennie

#4. The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

Antony Beevor

#5. It's always a pleasure forcing you to do things you don't want to do." "I like it better when you force me to do things I want to do.

Tiffany Reisz

#6. Nature is a mere pretext for a decorative composition, plus sentiment. It suggests emotion, and I translate that emotion into art.

Georges Braque

#7. From my earliest memories I was fascinated by animals. I would explore my backyard for insects and gaze at anthills until my elbows became sore. When I was 8, my mother bought me a book of North American birds and I've been keen on birdwatching since.

Jonathan Balcombe

#8. Without keeping up a merciless guard, day and night, the variety of forward opinions in this world could easily destroy one's sanity.

J.D. Salinger

#9. The real question is whether the brighter future is really always so distant. What if, on the contrary, it has been here for a long time already, and only our own blindness and weakness has prevented us from seeing it around us and within us, and kept us from developing it?

Nick Gillespie

#10. I'm not much for talking. You know what I do. I put guys in body bags when I'm right.

Mike Tyson

#11. Get the weirdnesses into the data where you can manipulate them easily, and the regularity into the code because regular code is a lot easier to work with

Brian Kernighan

#12. Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person's own mind, than on the externals in the world.

George Washington

#13. Our worries always come from our weaknesses.

Joseph Joubert

#14. The bulk of the population of every country is persuaded that all marriage customs other than its own are immoral, and that those who combat this view only do so in order to justify their own loose lives.

Bertrand Russell

#15. A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.

Gilbert Highet