Polinelli Readers Quotes

#1. There are three kinds of forms in the human figure: Ovoid forms - egg, ball and barrel masses; Column forms - cylinder, cone; Spatulate forms - box, slab and wedge blocks.

Burne Hogarth

#2. I spent two months in a jail once. In a Mexican border town.

Dean Ambrose

#3. The college was run by a man called Mr. Carver whose lifelong passions were Esperanto and Pitman's shorthand, the latter more useful than the former.

Kate Atkinson

#4. A man never rises so high as when he knows not whither he is going. The desire to eliminate uncertainty eliminates life.

William Deresiewicz

#5. If God qualifies you, no one can 'unqualify' you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#6. Bush is morally a universalist. For instance, he says the freedom is good, the same thing is good, all over the world. So in that sense he's a universalist.

Peter Singer

#7. I can't trust anyone who won't take real cream, or real sugar.

Menna Van Praag

#8. [Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

Danny Hillis

#9. Fear ... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

Renata Adler

#10. All traditional logic habitually assumes that precise symbols are being employed. It is therefore not applicable to this terrestial life but only to an imagined celestial existence ... logic takes us nearer to heaven than other studies.

Bertrand Russell

#11. Obinze imagined him, dutiful and determined, visiting the places he was supposed to visit, thinking, as he did so, not of the things he was seeing but of the photos he would take of them and of the people who would see those photos.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie