Slotkin Michigan Quotes

#1. Even if my mother had no qualms of conscience concerning ownership of negroes, her sense of duty carried her far beyond the mere supplying of their physical needs, or requiring that they render faithful service.

John Sergeant Wise

#2. The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

Samuel Johnson

#3. We [with Les Charles] started talking about hotel stories, and we found that a lot of the action was happening in the hotel bar. We actually thought of that while we were in a bar: "Why would anyone ever leave here?"

Amy Poehler

#4. If I can get somewhere, I'm all right. If not, I'm miserable.

Joseph Brodsky

#5. It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

John Stuart Mill

#6. world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas.

Eoin Colfer

#7. If a prayer is the way we talk to God, if a million people pray, that's got to be one big message.

Tony Verna

#8. Battered and bruised but still fighting for dominance his was not the selfish petty pride that made bullies of lesser men but rather the quiet
determined dignity that turned men into heroes and made heroes crawl back to their feet from the bitter dust of defeat and stand tall once more.

C.L. Wilson

#9. I stopped by Politics & Prose to sign a few copies of 'Constellation.' A couple days later, I learned that Barack Obama also stopped by and left with one of them.

Anthony Marra

#10. We must show new energy in fighting back an old evil. Nearly two centuries after the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade, and more than a century after slavery was officially ended in its last strongholds, the trade in human beings for any purpose must not be allowed to thrive in our time.

George W. Bush

#11. It was like watching a dear friend go insane.

Erik Larson

#12. Of course he despised the world as a whole; every thoughtful man should; it is almost a test of refinement.

E. M. Forster