Switchboards Quotes

#1. Language is as real, as tangible, in our lives as streets, pipelines, telephone switchboards, microwaves, radioactivity, cloning laboratories, nuclear power stations.

Adrienne Rich

#2. If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.

Carl Rogers

#3. The idea of an Afrikaner people as a cultural entity and religious group with a special language will be retained in South Africa as long as civilisation stands.

P. W. Botha

#4. But I have seen il Fenomeno do things that nobody else has ever done.

Kaka

#5. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty.

Kahlil Gibran

#6. As a kid, I wanted to be a pro tennis player. I was pretty good; at the tennis academies I attended, I always 'played up' against older age groups.

Matt Kuchar

#7. Never over book yourself fearing to miss out on opportunities.Be honest with yourself and how you use your time.

Kishore Bansal

#8. I'm so proud of myself. I worked with anger, with the darkest things in the world.

Courtney Love

#9. I tried to imagine a church that did not support its country's wars as a matter of patriotic course and instead stood against the devastation and suffering they caused in people's lives. (from 'The Dance of the Dissident Daughter'.)

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts my body and scrambles my brain, makes me stop breathing, clench my jaw and my fists, it makes me frown, and makes me blind and deaf, in fact entirely without sensory perception.

Olivia Williams

#11. Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.

Ed Begley Jr.

#12. How a society treats its disabled is the true measure of a civilization.

Chen Guangcheng