Wktu Quotes

#1. Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

Bharati Mukherjee

#2. I sold my soul for knowledge of the future, only to have that very pact render me forever ignorant (Gerald Tarrant).

C.S. Friedman

#3. Barbarians have no woman to teach them civilization. Barbarians cannot learn." I

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. My proudest accomplishment was that I never dropped a bomb, fired a bullet, or shot a missile.

Jimmy Carter

#5. To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#6. Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence.

Calvin Coolidge

#7. Thou, sun, art half as happy as we.

John Donne

#8. Many children use an alternative vocabulary for complex disease names. Hence, some say "smiling mighty Jesus" in place of spinal meningitis or "Luke and Leia" instead of leukemia.

Darshak Sanghavi

#9. A crust of lard, habit, and cowardice envelops the soul; no matter what it craves from the depths of its prison, the lard, habit, and cowardice carry out something entirely different.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#10. The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s.

Michael Rapaport