Pohlman Quotes

#1. The goal of education should be to dismantle the Middle Pole view, not to reinforce it in the name of the need for a grounding in one's own civilisation.

Jay L. Garfield

#2. Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.

Madelyn Alt

#3. The Garden of Eden was somewhere in present-day Iraq. The turmoil and war [we are witnessing] in that part of the world ... is occurring in the land where God established the first perfect civilization.

Billy Graham

#4. When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid, you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story, you're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.

F. Gary Gray

#5. The chief offense in bad fiction: we sense that characters are being manipulated, forced to do things they would not really do.

John Gardner

#6. During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Sammy Davis Jr.

#7. Intercede for all souls.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Mallory Ortberg