Modok Quotes

#1. Oppressed groups are frequently placed in the situation of being listened to only if we frame our ideas in the language that is familiar to and comfortable for a dominant group. This requirement often changes the meaning of our ideas and works to elevate the ideas of dominant groups.

Patricia Hill Collins

#2. That's the beauty of life, the uncertainty that we experience, literally, as we go about our day-to-day activities. We're not certain of anything, so fear comes up very often. Fear comes naturally.

Denzel Whitaker

#3. And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires.

Terry Pratchett

#4. No matter what you're doing, try to work at that task like it's your dream job.

Russell Simmons

#5. When a house is tottering to its fall,
The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part,
One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads,
And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.

Ovid

#6. Her marble tears run down her marble face.
A stranger is someone who has no handkerchief.

Who has no words to say.

Whose shadow mind is burning
as he sits watching her hands
and thinks how rare!

to see a Roman
talk
with no gestures at all.

Anne Carson

#7. that boot camp is something like

Marko Kloos

#8. Scientists cloister themselves away from the rest of society, happy just to receive their next grant. They lose their connection to a purpose.

Neil Turok

#9. You begin with the possibilities of the material.

Robert Rauschenberg

#10. Life is so short that it is not wise to take roundabout ways, nor can we spend much time in waiting ... We have not got half-way to dawn yet.

Henry David Thoreau