Ponderings Collection Quotes

#1. Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#2. He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

Jimmy Cannon

#3. The original languages didn't even have he and she. They didn't have concepts of masculine and feminine. People were people. And the whole idea was that we were in a circle together, not in a hierarchy together.

Gloria Steinem

#4. Logically, I know I'm being controlled by my emotions. But my logic is just 2 percent right now. I feel emotionally raw." [Mystery] clenched his bedsheet in his fist. "I feel strange and empty, like after a shit.

Neil Strauss

#5. The children never connect me with the man onstage when I come out the stage door. The parents spend all their time trying to convince them that I'm Caractacus.

Raul Esparza

#6. I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.

Shaun White

#7. I'd like more kids to go and see theatre because it really is amazing.

Charlie Rowe

#8. A state is better governed which has few laws, and those laws strictly observed.

Rene Descartes

#9. I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

Susan Collins

#10. I'm from the 'less is more' school. I had to be in the 'more is more' zone with 'Dallas Buyers Club', so I was out of my comfort zone, but I had to trust that.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#11. There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

Peter F. Drucker