Uncrumpled Quotes

#1. The cabbage white flies through the tailor's cheek. The tailor sinks his head. The cabbage white flies out of the back of the tailor's head, white and uncrumpled. Skinny Wilma flaps her handkerchief. The cabbage white flies through her forehead and into her head.

Herta Muller

#2. Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.

Gloria Gaither

#3. Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.

Mahavira

#4. Things are achieved when they are well begun.

George Eliot

#5. If African countries can unite and pull resources together, then that will be the best thing we could ever do for the problems in Africa including AIDS.

Ziggy Marley

#6. Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

Xavier Niel

#7. [My brother] shaped my young life. First, he taught me how to walk. Then, armed with sticks and dead snakes, he chased me and I learned how to run.

Augusten Burroughs

#8. What I do is sometimes - at least in Germany - met with wounding campaigns. I always face the question: should I grow myself a thick skin and ignore it, or should I let myself be wounded? I've decided to be wounded, since, if I grew a thick skin, there are other things I wouldn't feel any more.

Gunter Grass

#9. Empathy has some unfortunate features - it is parochial, narrow-minded, and innumerate. We're often at our best when we're smart enough not to rely on it.

Paul Bloom

#10. Maybe you're looking for the kind of man who doesn't exist, Ash. You want somebody who'll fit your life perfectly and that'll never happen. There has to be a bit of give and take, you know.'
'I know,' Ash said sharply. 'But I don't want to do all of the giving and none of the taking.

Sheila O'Flanagan

#11. I think the more important task for a young person than developing a personal brand is figuring out what she's great at, what she loves to do, and how she can use that to leave an imprint in the world. Those are tough questions, but essential ones. Answer those - and the personal brand follows.

Daniel H. Pink

#12. I believe that people want to hear good songs and they want to be moved.

Corey Smith

#13. But Justice, though her dome doom she doe prolong,Yet at the last she will her owne cause right.

Edmund Spenser

#14. We were all created differently, each with his/her calling and purpose

Sunday Adelaja

#15. I don't want to paint rainbows: I want to make art that disturbs identity and challenges authority.

Aman Mojadidi