Martiniquan Quotes

#1. More than England to the British West Indian or even Holland to the Surinamer, France is the mother country to the Martiniquan.

V.S. Naipaul

#2. If you tried to right all the wrongs in the world you'd exhaust yourself in under an hour.

Alice Hoffman

#3. You don't need a vacation when there's nothing to escape from.

Jason Mraz

#4. The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides ... It's the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you're writing, because the teacher won't like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

Seth Godin

#5. It was neither preaching nor praying that made a better man of me, but one or two people who believed in me better than I deserved, and I hated to disappoint them.

Owen Wister

#6. It is not the position, but the disposition.

Susan Sontag

#7. Your mind is more creative than any machine.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#8. I don't want to jump through hoops for people.

Nikki Sixx

#9. Otis D'ablo is alive! Do you here me? He is alive and trying to kill me!

Heather Brewer

#10. Human beings make terrible gods.

Nnedi Okorafor

#11. In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I'd make one a week and finally I'd pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I'm trying to keep it down to one a season.

Lou Gehrig

#12. Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children. -Diana

Kate Petrella

#13. When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented.

Douglas Kirkland

#14. Critics of American colleges typically attribute the failings of undergraduate education to a tendency on the part of professors to neglect their teaching to concentrate on research. In fact, the evidence does not support this thesis, except perhaps in major research universities.

Derek Bok

#15. I used to hear about guys who played saying how difficult it is getting up in the morning, and now I'm experiencing it; those same effects.

Terrell Davis

#16. I think Jennifer Saunders would be great in 'Doctor Who.'

Matt Smith