Theenkoln Quotes

#1. Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.

Hannah Ware

#2. I predict that very shortly the old-fashioned incandescent lamp, having a filament heated to brightness by the passage of electric current through it, will entirely disappear.

Nikola Tesla

#3. I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people; you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.

Ken Livingstone

#4. Don't people drown their sorrows in things like scotch? Not strawberry whatever-it's-called.

Tom Rachman

#5. Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#6. The big icebergs that drift into warmer water melt much more rapidly under water than on the surface, and sometimes a sharp, low reef extending two or three hundred feet beneath the sea is formed. If a vessel should run on one of these reefs half her bottom might be torn away.

Edward Smith

#7. To Daemon, my arrival was the beginning of the end. The apocalypse. Kat-mageddon.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

Laurence Overmire

#9. Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Andrew Jackson