Quotes About Sock Hops

#1. I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

Brittany Snow

#2. All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

Saint Augustine

#3. The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels.

Saadi

#4. Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will.

Swami Vivekananda

#5. I have a brother who's a psychologist. He says three-quarters of the world are born feeling that they will be affected by the world; one quarter are born knowing that they will affect the world.

Kathleen Turner

#6. My story starts with my dad, a black boy born to a single mother in a small town in North Carolina. It starts with my parents meeting in Washington, D.C., in the '60s, at a time of incredible activism.

Cory Booker

#7. A laser is a weak source of energy. A laser takes [only] a few watts of energy and focuses them in a coherent stream of light. But with a laser, you can drill a hole in a diamond or wipe out cancer.

Al Ries

#8. Learning isn't acquiring knowledge so much as it is trimming information that has already been acquired.

Criss Jami

#9. If you can't handle the game, then get the hell out off the field. - Jordan Elliott

Kate McCarthy

#10. About 10 million people start a business each year, and about one out of two will make it. The average entrepreneur is often on his or her third startup.

Brad D. Smith

#11. When he rebels, a man
identifies himself with other men and so surpasses himself, and from this point of view human solidarity
is metaphysical.

Albert Camus

#12. Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Pindar

#13. Broken heart will turn into a stronger one within hope.

Toba Beta

#14. Not to gain time, but maybe to lose it, to see it pass.

Javier Marias

#15. We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

Andy Partridge

#16. What is wrong? Is this related to the notice I received from Queen Windermere that a war was being beta-tested, and might be cleared for release? I do not have time to allow my coders to be slaughtered. It seems very inefficient.

Seanan McGuire