Uncrossing Quotes

#1. Well, Dr. Elpinoy will never admit it, but he suffers from performance anxiety-"
"Oh, shut up, you old cad," Elpinoy said, finally uncrossing his arms.

Lia Habel

#2. In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

J.G. Ballard

#3. The Finnish way of dealing with Russia, whatever the situation, is that we will be very decisive to show what we don't like, where the red line is.

Sauli Niinisto

#4. So what should we say when children complete a task - say, math problems - quickly and perfectly? Should we deny them the praise they have earned? Yes. When this happens, I say, Whoops. I guess that was too easy. I apologize for wasting your time. Let's do something you can really learn from!

Carol S. Dweck

#5. Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.

Maimonides

#6. The chief cause for the impending collapse of the world - the cause sufficient in and by itself - is the enormous growth of the human population: the human flood. The worst enemy of life is too much life: the excess of human life.

Pentti Linkola

#7. The black man in our midst carried murder in his heart, he wanted vengeance. We carried murder too, we wanted peace.

James Baldwin

#8. It's better to finish at the peak or soon after it, than to wait until the audience notices a decline.

Eberhard Weber

#9. In army they say "Shoot to Kill" and in Sales "Pitch to Sell".

Honeya

#10. Sony and Nickelodeon knew they wanted to create a TV show that was a platform for a band they would have for Sony. They knew what they wanted, and it took two years of auditions and screen tests and countless people coming in and out the door until they finally settled on the four of us.

James Maslow

#11. Guys will just go out and do something. Females will talk about it - a lot. I don't care if I break a nail. You have to be aggressive to get the same respect as the guys.

Mya

#12. Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

Justin Cronin

#13. He was little more than halfway down the staircase when he heard an all-piercing, sustained scream
clearly coming from a small, female child. It was highly acoustical, as though it were reverberating within four tiled walls.

J.D. Salinger

#14. Do something for the joy of doing it and pray you won't be punished.

Sammy Cahn