Quotes of: Francis Keyword

I encourage teachers to speak in their own voices. Don't use the gibberish of the standards writers.

Jonathan Kozol

We know that segregation is evil. We know that the sickest children should not go to the worst hospitals.

Jonathan Kozol

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

Jonathan Kozol

What could be more convincing, moreover, than the gesture of laying one's cards face up on the table?

Jacques Lacan

For my first week as a new boy at Radley College, back in the summer of 1979, I was followed around by a film crew.

James Lovegrove

I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway.

James Lovelock

You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.

James Lovelock

Some of the folks on both sides might be sincere, but it does seem as if it is only the opposition that cares about the Bill of Rights most of the time.

James Bovard

Between 'Avengers,' 'JLA/Avengers,' and 'Trinity,' I've gotten down and dirty in the big universes and had a hell of a time playing in those sandboxes.

Kurt Busiek

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

Kip Thorne

I've seen so many screw-ups of representations of South Africa, and it makes me so angry every time.

Lauren Beukes

A key issue in developmental biology at that time was the problem of how cells underwent differentiation, with most workers concentrating on explanations in terms of changes in enzyme and gene regulation.

Paul Nurse

When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we've lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat.

Richard Greenberg

I think the time has come for the United States to do even-handed justice.

Tony Campolo

An astrolabe is relatively unknown in today's world. But, at the time, in the 13th century, it was the gadget of the day. It was the world's first popular computer. And it was a device that, in fact, is a model of the sky.

Tom Wujec

I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.

Upamanyu Chatterjee

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

John Calvin

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

Anne Hutchinson

I hate thinking about it, teaching about it, and writing about it. But the plain truth is that hell is real and real people go there for eternity.

Bill Hybels

I perceive two things in Scotland of the most fearful omen: ignorance of theological truth, and a readiness to pride themselves in and boast of it.

Edward Irving

It is claimed, but with what truth we cannot say, that there is a well-defined propaganda among the aliens of colour to bring about the degeneration of the white race.

Emily Murphy