Sumerian Tablets Quotes

#1. It is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

#2. Will I ever get control of my life? Will I always be shoved back and pushed around by those I trust?

Jay Asher

#3. We know fun. Like two weekends ago we stayed up all night watching a documentary marathon on the brain." She rolled her eyes toward Erin. "We're positively wild.

Jenny B. Jones

#4. Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent.

John Dee

#5. Q'eeng had just attempted in the third dialect the traditional rightward schism greeting of "I offer you the bread of life," but his phrasing and accent had transmuted the statement into "Let us violate cakes together.

John Scalzi

#6. Making 'bad people' seem human is the key to making them really scary.

Tom Noonan

#7. Having to accept hominoids as real will require having to acknowledge that the prehuman fossil record is comprised entirely of their bones, rather than ours.

Lloyd Pye

#8. Of course it hurts, it's a spanking. How else would it work?

Breanna Hayse

#9. I don't know why the guys with the big money don't find five terrific young producers and give each of them enough to commission a musical and to live on for a year. You'd be likely to get at least one project with a future.

Harold Prince

#10. Broken hearts mend but souls forever fight the battle.

Jay Long

#11. I mean, what is this life of ours supposed to be for? Are we to spend it identifying each other with catalogues, like tourists in an art gallery? Or are we to try to exchange some kind of a signal, however garbled, before it's too late?

Christopher Isherwood

#12. No part of walking by faith is more difficult than walking the road of repentance. However, with 'faith unto repentance', we can push the roadblock of pride away and beg God for mercy. One simply surrenders, worrying only about what God thinks, not about what 'they' think.

Neal A. Maxwell

#13. According to the English scholar Richard Lloyd-Jones, some of the clay tablets deciphered from ancient Sumerian include complaints about the deteriorating writing skills of the young.

Steven Pinker