"[On her 101-year-old sister and herself, at 103:] We have a lot to do ... People don't understand this. They think we're sitting around in rocking chairs, which isn't at all true. Why, we don't even own a rocking chair."

-- Sarah Louise Delany

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Age Quotes

“I wish I could create an IMAX film that would make my work accessible to a broader audience.”
“Class has always been a staple of British comedy. We've always been able to laugh at it. When British shows are translated to America, the absence of the equivalent class structure there often causes them to fail. But over here we've always got comic mileage out of it.”

Source : Source: www.comedy.co.uk
“If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.”

Source : Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies
“When you study great teachers... you will learn much more from their caring and hard work than from their style.”
“People spend time worrying about things they think they have to have and lose perception of what they do have. You can have all the money and material things you want. If you aren't here to enjoy them, what good do they do?”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Energy Policy will be and should be driven by environmental policy in the future.”
“The real controversy comes with anthropologists - not all, but some - who see themselves as studying culture, and they then see culture from the perspective of humans, which is what they study. From their perspective, or, from some of their perspectives, it's sort of heresy to even talk about culture in any other animal. Others would say, "Yeah, you can talk about it, but our definitions of culture are so utterly different from yours and include things like values, and so on, which you've never shown to exist in any of these other creatures."”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.”

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