John Shelton Reed Quotes
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
Quotes to Explore
-
To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
-
How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
-
It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
-
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
-
I am a Christian guy. And I am kind of quiet about it because I want people to take me seriously before I throw something that serious in their face.
-
As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
-
The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
-
I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
-
She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
-
I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
-
The idea of it becomes a little freaky if you're dealing with someone who has trouble differentiating between fantasy and reality, but that's a concern no matter what kind of movie you're dealing with.
-
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
-
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
-
Every single figure on Mount Rushmore was a third party at one time or another, so third parties become major parties, and I think that the Libertarian Party may become my major party.
-
Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
-
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
-
I would rather be the tail of a lion than the head of a mouse.
-
I have this concept that I call 'Combo Meals.' The idea is that I start with the kids' meal and then add a few more ingredients, and it becomes the adult meal. This way I'm not making two entirely separate dishes. I'm just simply adding on to what I'm already making.
-
She must be a fool with a witness, who can believe a man, proud and vain as he is, will lay his boasted authority, the dignity and prerogative of his sex, on moment at her feet, but in prospect of taking it up again to more advantage; he may call himself her slave a few days, but it is only in order to make her his all the rest of his life.
-
In the design of fission reactors man was not an innovator but an unwitting imitator of nature.
-
I hope that America sees that I'm a fun loving guy and I hope they see the light of God in me, if that makes sense at all. This is a great platform, this is a great blessing that I have, and I I just want them to see something in me that says, 'Everything's going to be okay'.
-
To return to the question of strategy...The Falkland Islands are unlikely to cause a major explosion.
-
In the theory of electric fields it is assumed that points have meaning. ...Physicists using general relativity... cannot speak of a point, except by naming some features of the field lines that will uniquely distinguish that point. ...the network of relationships evolve with time... constantly changing.
-
The nature of the South is changing faster than the stereotypes are. Much of the South now looks like San Jose. Is it still southern?
