Ann Nocenti Quotes

I wanted the new Green Arrow to somehow sense his long, brutal past. It's like someone who has past lives they can't remember but feels occasional flashes of.

Ann Nocenti

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PastGreenSomeoneRememberLong

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

John W. Gardner

EducationTodayFlowersPlantsGrow

It's annoying when you've got a guitar and you're working on music and then you have to go and do the shopping or someone calls your mobile and you get distracted or you have to go out and do something.

Michael Kiwanuka

MusicShoppingGuitarSomeoneYou

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

Jonathan Franzen

OutFreakSufferMayLocally

I never get involved with the ladies I work with.

Dirk Benedict

WorkNeverInvolvedGetLadies

There's no time, place, or purpose of a government shutdown or default.

Cory Gardner

TimePurposeGovernmentPlace

There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don't think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.

Corey Lewandowski

PeopleThinkChoicePersonFirst

I like simplicity almost to the point of being monastic.

Sergio Marchionne

SimplicityPointBeingAlmostLike

I grew up in the San Fernando Valley of Southern California in the 1970s. My friends and I were into bicycle motocross and into skateboarding in empty swimming pools. Those activities shaped my generation.

Scott Borchetta

SwimmingGenerationBicycleFriends

When a thought takes one's breath away, a grammar lesson seems an impertinence.

Thomas Wentworth Higginson

IntelligenceThoughtLessonGrammar

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

Thomas Hobbes

LifeNaturePowerManLibertySay

I was trying to find an original style that didn't sound like Tony Bennett or anyone else. So I prayed about it, woke up with this high voice, and by 1954, I was going to amateur nights and winning.

Tiny Tim

StyleWinningVoiceTryingFindUp

People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking.

Richard Stallman

HappyPeopleMeFreeChurchSin

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