Isabel Wilkerson Quotes
The suburbanization and the ghettos that were created as a result of the limits of where African-Americans could live in the North still exist today. And ... the South was forced to change, in part because they were losing such a large part of their workforce through the Great Migration.
Isabel Wilkerson
Quotes to Explore
It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
Florence Nightingale
Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
Ike Barinholtz
What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
Pat Cadigan
But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
Edgar Bergen
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.
J. B. Priestley
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
Salman Rushdie
I loved playing football, but I hated the games because it's a lot of pressure. I just loved putting on the pads and hitting my friends.
Daniel Bryan
In Europe, a writer is supposed to improve up until he's about 75.
Irwin Shaw
Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
Rachel Sklar
I think if you are creative then it's an unstoppable thing. It just keeps coming throughout your entire life.
Gary Numan
I'm not at the hoarder stage, but there are two or three storage units here and there. I have things that a lot of people put a lot of heart and soul into, a lot of mental energy. I'm good at keeping those things. When it comes to pop culture, as you move through this fast lane, you wonder where it all goes and how you can hold onto it.
Taylor Hicks
