Shonkoff Phillips Quotes

#1. Axel and Fable, their father was a woodcutter, and they live in a Candy House? Axel is always hungry, and eats too much candy, and Fable is fond of eating bread. It doesn't get easier than that to know who they really are.

Cameron Jace

#2. Otto concurs with James that the numen appears as an objective presence, and that it is distinguishable from every other object we experience, because it is more deep and more general (all-encompassing) than all other objects.

Robert Spitzer

#3. 'The Martian' may be fiction, but at NASA, we are working to make it a reality.

Ellen Stofan

#4. As a reader I don't distinguish between confessional and non-confessional work. After all, how do we even know that certain "I" poems are confessional? It's a tricky business, this correlating of the speaker and the poet.

Matthea Harvey

#5. If you can't get to be uncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. [ ... ] live well and die happy.

Charles Dickens

#6. You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.

Christian Marclay

#7. The French team has given me so much and I want to help it. I told myself I did not have much time left in soccer, and I want to profit from it to the maximum.

Zinedine Zidane

#8. Me: *stares into the void*

The Void: *stares back*

Me: *winks*

The Void: *blushes*

Unknown

#9. I'm always striving to do more. Whatever I accomplish, it's not enough. I don't get satisfied.

Brian Dawkins

#10. I was the only Black person on the set. It was unusual for me to be in a circumstance in which every move I made was tantamount to representation of 18 million people.

Sidney Poitier

#11. Why was there never an opera that ended with a soprano who was free?

Alexander Chee

#12. Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

Marc Estrin

#13. I used to play basketball and I was pretty competitive, but I was never a bad loser. I never got angry. For me it was always about doing my best and devoting myself to a challenge.

Benicio Del Toro

#14. It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary.

G.K. Chesterton

#15. Please, dear brother, do much more with that Bible of yours besides carry it for luck. It will bring you no such luck. But if opened, it will bring you life.

A.M. Heath