Nadira Jagan Brancier Quotes

#1. My shame circuits burned out from overuse years ago.

David Wong

#2. Because of the generation in which I came into the world, there were expectations. Of course there were expectations. It was something having to do with being a respectable Negro woman who would make the people in Baltimore proud.

Anna Deavere Smith

#3. I am not deaf. I hear the anger. I see the dissatisfaction, and I have to go faster.

Francois Hollande

#4. I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.

Jewel

#5. I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf.

Alexander Woollcott

#6. I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal.

Bill Watterson

#7. Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#8. For men who want to flee Family Man America and never come back, there is a guaranteed solution: homosexuality is the new French Foreign Legion.

Florence King

#9. It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

James F. Cooper

#10. Help for the sick and hungry,
home for the homeless folk,
peace in the world forever,
this is my prayer, O Lord. Amen.

Anne Lamott

#11. I hope I give girls an opportunity to realize that they can swim and go to school at the same time. It's not to be given up once they get out of high school. They can continue doing it for the rest of their lives.

Debbie Meyer

#12. Trust is important in any relationship, not just a romantic one.

Stephanie Sigman

#13. I have enormous respect for Derek Parfit, although he seems to me bound within an unfortunate philosophical tradition - rather like the extraordinarily brilliant exponents of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Middle Ages.

Philip Kitcher