Operatively Quotes

#1. Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away.

Kurt Vonnegut

#2. Kazakhstan is Mackinder's Heartland!

Robert D. Kaplan

#3. For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.

Vincent Bugliosi

#4. I think the implications for the rise of China are huge in terms of the political landscape, economic balance, de-velopment thinking, and the environment.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

#5. I was very much in love with my mother. She was a very warm and a very cold woman. When she was warm, I tried to come close to her. But she could be very cold and rejecting.

Ingmar Bergman

#6. The humorous writer professes to awaken and direct your love, your pity, your kindness
your scorn for untruth, pretension, imposture ... He takes upon himself to be the week-day preacher.

Mark Twain

#7. The chance that higher life forms might have emerged through evolutionary processes is comparable with the chance that a tornado sweeping through a junk yard might assemble a Boeing 747 from the material therein.

Fred Hoyle

#8. I think 'A Serious Man' is genius.

John Requa

#9. If you're going to be sexy in a photo, you'd better be thinking about sex rather than about being sexy.

Peta Wilson

#10. People took the word "clean" out of context. My mother had an expression: "clean as a whistle, sharp as a tack." I inherited her originality.

Joe Biden

#11. I am so glad that I am young, so that I may give my youth to you.

Woodrow Wilson

#12. Well
" My mother paused, and her tone was reflective in that way that is inevitably sad, because the past is sad. "What I remember," she said, "is that you were always such a dear little girl.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#13. Post-operatively the transplanted kidney functioned immediately with a dramatic improvement in the patient's renal and cardiopulmonary status.

Joe Murray

#14. Artichoke: That vegetable of which one has more at the finish than at the start of dinner.

Lord Chesterfield

#15. Writing has been so much a part of my life that I'm really quite annoyed that I can't do as much as I used to.

Anne McCaffrey

#16. Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

Joan Kirner