Slumming Urban Quotes

#1. When you are playing a detective, particularly as a woman, you either are going to embrace the fact that it's a man's world you are jumping into, or you're going to ignore it.

Roberto Orci

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Harry Truman

#3. Dubai Airport will peak at a maximum of 100 million passengers a year, which would limit Emirate's growth, but the new Al Maktoum International with its capacity for another 120 million passengers will allow us to continue growing.

Maurice Flanagan

#4. All wickedness comes from weakness. The child is wicked only because he is weak. Make him strong; he will be good. He who could do everything would never do harm.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#5. I am the son and grandson of Navy admirals, and I was born into America's service, ... It wasn't until I was deprived of her company that I fell in love with America.

John McCain

#6. I was a bookworm who aced every test - until third grade, when my teacher handed out a pop quiz about Jesus and the Apostles.

Caroline Leavitt

#7. Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terror, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it always balances them.

Anais Nin

#8. Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.

Tammy Bruce

#9. Besides the fact that I make movies, there's nothing interesting about my life at all, unfortunately.

Jonah Hill

#10. Each day when you wake up you have a choice: You can have a good day, or you can have a bad day. So you might as well have a good one.

Christy Jordan

#11. When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be.

Arika Okrent

#12. The angels stand between us and God, but they are translucent, even transparent, and they beckon us to penetrate their luminosity.

Peter Wilson

#13. The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.

Jim Fergus