Yhteinen Tekij Quotes

#1. Clothes and jewellery should be startling, individual. When you see a woman in my clothes, you want to know more about them. To me, that is what distinguishes good designers from bad designers.

Alexander McQueen

#2. Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for most of our sisters in the rest of the world who are still forced into premature marriage, prostitution, forced labor - they have children that they don't want or they cannot feed.

Isabel Allende

#3. Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment.

Mahatma Gandhi

#4. Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life." (Wellesly High School commencement speech, "You Are Not Special", 6-12)

Teacher David McCullough

#5. I have come to be convinced that it is only the unbending observance of custom that sustains life in an urban circumstance.

Gordon Lish

#6. There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Whitey Ford

#7. Here is a tree rooted in African soil, nourished with waters from the rivers of Afrika. Come and sit under its shade and become, with us, the leaves of the same branch and the branches of the same tree

Robert Sobukwe

#8. The city takes a breath on Sunday. Of all that's lost with the pursuit of what's next, I hope we don't lose that ...

Hawksley Workman

#9. A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.

Heather O'Neill

#10. You only really deserve love if you give your whole body and soul to it, throwing yourself in and risking everything.

Guillaume Musso

#11. Was I a successful father? Maybe not. Was I a successful husband? Probably not. Was I a successful actor? Probably not.

Sid Haig

#12. You know you're a real grown-up when nothing but Oreos is black and white.

Maria Murnane

#13. When I was racing, I had learned that you can't set stock in public adoration or your press clippings. By the time I was 26, I'd heard crowds of 100,000 scream my name, but a week later they couldn't remember who I was. You're a hero today and a bum tomorrow - hero to zero, I sometimes say.

Eddie Rickenbacker

#14. In the world of the blind the one eyed man is king

Proverb