Shinall Speakers Quotes

#1. If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.

Jimmy Carter

#2. He tried to think of all the people in his life as chemicals, the uncertainty of mixing them together, the potential for explosions and scarring.

Kevin Wilson

#3. Human beings are not so in harmony with the dharma. That is why they suffer so much. But you as an individual can reach a plane of attention and can become attention itself.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may;
The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.

Robert Herrick

#5. I started a list of things I want to teach my children, and that list is eight points long. The first one is, do what you love.

Tina Roth-Eisenberg

#6. A foreman in the East wouldn't know how many workers he would have the next day, because part of his working force had left the system to go to West Germany.

Stefan Heym

#7. I've been in clubs. I don't like being in an enclosed place with really loud music, and a lot of drunk people. It's not my idea of a good time. It's just such a miserable life.

Joaquin Phoenix

#8. When I look on you a moment, then I can speak no more, but my tongue falls silent, and at once a delicate flame courses beneath my skin, and with my eyes I see nothing, and my ears hum, and a wet sweat bathes me and a trembling seizes me all over.

Sappho

#9. There are over 30 doctors running for the US Congress this year. That's going to be rather strange. Half the time these folks will be playing God and asking women to take their clothes off and the other half the time they will be doctors.

Jay Leno

#10. The white working class likes being pandered to even less than it likes being insulted.

Timothy Noah

#11. I did think for many, many years that because of my ability I could beat the system. And I was wrong.

Mickey Rourke