Short Circuits Readworks Quotes

#1. I'm not feeling very well - I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course.

Groucho Marx

#2. Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#3. I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

Ishmael Reed

#4. I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Sade Adu

#5. There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

Oscar Wilde

#6. A thousand times more crimes have been committed in the name of love than in the name of hate. The

Sidney Sheldon

#7. (My youngest sister, Antimony, is still trying to figure out what she wants to do with her life. For the moment, it mostly seems to be roller derby, the occasional monster hunting job, and getting pissed at our parents.)

Seanan McGuire

#8. Learning is deeper and more durable when it's effortful. Learning that's easy is like writing in sand, here today and gone tomorrow.

Peter C. Brown

#9. He very word "patient" implies passivity and powerlessness. Me-teacher-you-dumbbell, or me-doctor-you-patient, or me-politician-you-voter, or any other paternalistic or maternalistic stay-in-your-place tradition will not pass muster with me.

Andrew Saul

#10. While the white man keeps the impetus of his own proud, onward march, the dark races will yield and serve, perforce. But let the white man once have a misgiving about his own leadership, and the dark races will at once attack him, to pull him down into the old gulfs.

D.H. Lawrence

#11. When I do entertain, in the summer, which is rare, I receive my guests on the front porch, set up wicker trays found at Pottery Barn, and serve iced beverages. Anytime I do welcome friends, it's always a tray of canapes or Planters peanuts, jellied candy from Paris, and a good bottle of Sancerre.

Andre Leon Talley

#12. The mind can break and be lost forever, but if the will breaks it comes back stronger.

Diane Capri

#13. We've performed in South America and in Japan.

Julie London

#14. Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.

Willard Van Orman Quine

#15. brutally air-conditioned library

Andrea Stuart