Shamika Gonzalez Quotes

#1. Envy of the male role can come as much from an undervaluation of the role of wife and mother as from an overvaluation of the public aspects of achievement that have been reserved for men.

Margaret Mead

#2. Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

Seth Godin

#3. Prolific programmers contribute to certain disaster.

Niklaus Wirth

#4. There lives at least one being who can never change-one being who would be content to devote his whole existence to your happiness-who lives but in your eyes-who breathes but in your smiles-who bears the heavy burden of life itself only for you.

Charles Dickens

#5. Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.

Michael Ignatieff

#6. I was just obsessed with soul singers who had these big powerful voices. I used to listen to Aretha, Whitney, Mariah and try and imitate them, note for note and riff for riff.

Jess Glynne

#7. Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

Bertrand Russell

#8. A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

Toni Maguire

#9. Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.

Mason Cooley

#10. Is there a point of taxation wherein even a Democrat would acknowledge it is thievery by the government?

Dennis Prager

#11. Young people need the hands-on training that comes with a summer job. They need to know how to dress for success and nail job interviews. But most of all, they need mentorship, guidance, and inspiration.

Hilda Solis

#12. The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Gottfried Leibniz

#13. If the cause is advanced, indifferent is it to me where or in what quarter it happens.

George Washington

#14. I went to Clive Davis' Grammy party and I nearly spontaneously combusted because everyone on my iPod was there!

Leona Lewis

#15. Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

Vladimir Nabokov