Wokkingmum Quotes

#1. Half of us are blind, few of us feel, and we are all deaf.

William Osler

#2. Your voice is your identity. If you don't use it, you're halfway to Asphodel already.

Rick Riordan

#3. The United States government has the obligation to educate all young people in this country.

Al Sharpton

#4. I guess Americans are hated a lot of places.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#5. Unfortunately, honesty hasn't always been a part of the job description for the police force, especially when dealing with our people. Today I must appeal to their sense of integrity, because we need the Mobile Police Department. Before we can do our job, they've got to do theirs...

Ravi Howard

#6. And there the wicked witch stayed for a long long time.'
Did she ever come out?'
Not yet.

Gregory Maguire

#7. We must school and train ourselves to deal personally with the unconverted. We must not excuse ourselves, but force ourselves to the irksome task until it becomes easy.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. 1 To learn, you must want to be taught. To refuse reproof is stupid.

Anonymous

#9. To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.

Nawal El Saadawi

#10. I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

Michael Chabon

#11. With BitTorrent, the cat's out of the bag.

Bram Cohen

#12. Yet I am always with you; you

Sarah Young

#13. Sincerity w the most compendious wisdom, an excellent instrument for the speedy despatch of business. It creates confidence in those we have to deal with, saves the labor of many inquiries, and brings things to an issue in few words.

Lord Chesterfield

#14. If you asked people, "Do you like jazz?" they would be like, "not at all." But I think that if you're really putting yourself out there and really communicating, music can put you beyond people's preconceptions, beyond their playlist.

Kamasi Washington

#15. Wartime lipstick is necessarily cobbled together from whatever tailings and gristle were left over once all the good stuff was use to grease propeller shafts. A florid and cloying scent is needed to conceal its unspeakable mineral and animal origins.
It is the smell of War.

Neal Stephenson