Nokes Quotes

#1. Where do you think you're going?" Dr. Nokes demanded ... . "What do you have for directions?" And Dad ... said, "I have the substance of things hoped for. I have the anticipation of things unseen

Leif Enger

#2. The doubts ached in my bones like the deadening crawl of an icy night, and my gun trembled from my unsteady arm.

Katherine McIntyre

#3. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.

Honore De Balzac

#4. But in our age the appeal to authority is weak, and I am of my age.

Allen Tate

#5. Someone is going to figure out how to make this work and when they do, all the anti-gambling, over-regulating authoritarian governments will be exposed as emperors without clothes. It might not be obvious that this is even happening at first, since these systems are by definition stealthy affairs.

Calvin Ayre

#6. Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together.

Carl Sagan

#7. The human being who acts is the human being who lives.

Lee Strasberg

#8. God remains silent so that men and women may speak, protest, and struggle. God remains silent so that people may really become people. When God is silent and men and women cry, God cries in solidarity with them but doesn't intervene. God waits for the shouts of protest.

Elsa Tamez

#9. What I'm saying is we're making product with chitlins. T-shirts! That's the most we can make.

Kanye West