"You never know what the American public is going to do, but you know that they will do it all at once."

“How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?”

Source : Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.6, Syracuse University Press

“The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.”

“The god of Islam tells his people, "Beat your wife. Go kill infidels. Go Kill Christians and Jews." This is in the Koran; it has been for 1400 years. Their god tells them to kill everybody who doesn't believe in the god of the Koran.”

“The professor, instead of being the "sage on the stage," functions as a "guide on the side."”

Source : "From Sage on the Stage to Guide on the Side" by Alison King, published in "College Teaching", Volume 41, No. 1 (pp. 30-35), www.jstor.org. Winter 1993.

“I'm intelligent enough and capable enough to understand that you are ignorant, pompous, egotistical cretin. I'm going to crush you on here because I'm tired of hearing about it.”

Source : "Richard Sherman Still Talking, Taunting This Morning" by Colleen Curry, abcnews.go.com. January 20, 2014.

“I don't want to be some actor talking about how he wants to be a musician. It's something I'm really passionate about and I don't want to be spouting off at the mouth about something before it's out there and can speak for itself.”

“To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.”

“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”