Mark Twain Quotes
...a professor in one of the great female colleges. That odious form is common, and I submit and use it, though it offends me as much as it would to say female brickbat or female snow-storm or female geography.
Quotes to Explore
-
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
-
I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
-
Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
-
I feel like sleep is the most important thing. I notice in my body, when I don't get enough sleep on a consistent basis, how I am dreary, or my mood changes, or I'm not as focused.
-
I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
-
I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
-
More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
-
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
-
I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
-
Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
-
Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
-
After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
-
I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.
-
Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
-
Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.
-
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
-
Netflix is something I watch.
-
My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
-
So many people ask me, 'Do you like 'Departed?' I say, '50/50.'
-
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function.
-
I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
-
Revelation, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the commentators, who know nothing.
-
I'm interested in that drive, that rush to judgment, that is so prevalent in our society. We all know that pleasurable rush that comes from condemning, and in the short term it's quite a satisfying thing to do, isn't it?
-
...a professor in one of the great female colleges. That odious form is common, and I submit and use it, though it offends me as much as it would to say female brickbat or female snow-storm or female geography.
