"Whenever he looks at me with those big brown eyes, I feel like giving him a nut,â€ she said. She even started calling the squirrels running around in the park Mr. Whitmans."

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Source : Kerstin Gier (2011). “Ruby Red”, p.10, Macmillan

Kerstin Gier

#Running Quotes #Eye Quotes #Nuts Quotes

“We must appraise civilization in relation to its territory and in relation to its duration. The character of the medium of communication tends to create a bias in civilization favourable to an over-emphasis on the time concept or on the space concept and only at rare intervals are the biases offset by the influence of another medium and stability achieved.”

Source : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.99, University of Toronto Press
“Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.”
“Prep things in advance so that you don't have to cook everything at the last moment.”
“I'm here to encourage everyone to look at the data themselves, not just buy what they're told. I find that my standards for science are more important to me than anything else, and I hate to see them being depreciated by the alarmists' claims today. Politics and the media and what have you have allowed us now to be facing one of the biggest scientific hoaxes in history. That's what's being pushed on us.”
“You think sex is dirty. You have a dirty mind.”
“Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally, I do not mean figuratively, but literally impossible for us to figure what the loss would be if these teachings were removed. We would lose all the standards by which we now judge both public and private morals; all the standards toward which we, with more or less resolution, strive to raise ourselves.”
“Selling is the most important skill as an entrepreneur. I'm not talking so much about selling a product so much as selling yourself, team, and deals.”
“When I took off from Providence, my only professional aspiration was what it had always been: I wanted to be a sportscaster. By the time I landed in the desert, I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to be a writer.”

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