Sum 41 Best Quotes

#1. I had never heard of staph until I got it. Didn't really know what was. Still don't really know what it is, but I know you just don't want to have it.

Fred Funk

#2. All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.

Alan Lightman

#3. Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What other country can throw away money sending its people to live with savages?

Tony D'Souza

#4. It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Robert Fulghum

#5. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

Lao-Tzu

#6. My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom.

Maya Angelou

#7. I don't want to waste my time, being another casualty of society

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#8. I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.

Elizabeth Strout

#9. They whom trifles distract and nothing occupies are but children.

John Lancaster Spalding

#10. The root of all of it: he's never lost. He still has both his parents, and any kind of loss he ever went through was his choice, which is always a different kind of loss than the kind that's ripped from you.

Vanessa Garcia

#11. A Motswana in Zambia or Zimbabwe was referred to as gwerekwere and so was a Zimbabwean or Zambian in Botswana. Post-colonialism tragedy.

Thabo Katlholo

#12. Political experts are saying the reason John Kerry is doing so well is because he's 'electable.' Hey, so was Al Gore - in fact, he even got elected and it didn't help him at all.

Jay Leno

#13. Thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with

Charlotte Bronte