Obed Ramotswe Quotes

#1. Anger, Obed Ramotswe had explained to her once, is no more than a salt that we rub into our wounds.

Alexander McCall Smith

#2. I lean and loaf at my ease ... observing a spear of summer grass.

Walt Whitman

#3. Life was a short window and there was no sense in doing the wrong thing over and over even if it was so difficult to stop.

Anna Godbersen

#4. People don't listen to terrestrial radio. They don't find their music that way. They don't get their news that way. They go to blogs. They go through Sirius/XM. They go through all these different places.

Kaskade

#5. Probably, all these words would tumble out, these stupid, useless words I've been carrying everywhere like a bouquet of delicate, beautiful, stupid, useless flowers.

Daniel Jose Older

#6. The white economic and political elite often failed to recognize blacks as American, just as blacks often failed to recognize their potential for advancement outside of the limited opportunities afforded them by whites.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#7. - The earth hums?
- Of course it does. What a stupid question! Don't you hear it?

Jeff Smith

#8. France wants Britain to remain in the E.U.; indeed, how can we imagine that friendly nation that is our ally and played a role on the international stage could be outside the E.U.?

Francois Hollande

#9. Nine SPEAKING IN TONGUES The following is based on a lecture given at the New York Public Library in December 2008. 1

Zadie Smith

#10. I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat.

Robert Kazinsky

#11. How ridiculous it is to waste our lives experimenting with those things for which we already have the answers!

Sterling W. Sill

#12. Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

Scott McClellan