Nzingha Thompson Quotes

#1. Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Socrates

#2. Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

James S. Coleman

#3. It is better to be part of a great whole than to be the whole of a small part.

Frederick Douglass

#4. Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son emulate Manny Ramirez)

Jim Gullo

#5. There is a sort of theory that you should adapt bad books because they always make more successful films.

Christopher Hampton

#6. Judging from her wide eyes, I guessed the answer was, No, and does hallucinations run in the family?

Rick Riordan

#7. Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.

Brian Cox

#8. When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

Sam Endicott

#9. My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

Chris Milk

#10. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

#11. It annoys me a bit how people like squirrels but not rats. at the end of the day they're the same thing, except that squirrels have had a better upbringing.

Karl Pilkington