#thou

I'm pretty sure I can say that no one in my family ever asked Demetrie what it felt like to be black in Mississippi, working for our white family. It never occurred to us to ask. It was everyday life. It wasn't something people felt compelled to examine. I have wished, for many years, that I'd been old enough and thoughtful enough to ask Demetrie that question. She died when I was sixteen. I've spent years imagining what her answer would be. And that is why I wrote this book. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#thoughtful #too-little-too-late #family

Mathematicians are like managers - they want improvement without change. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#improvement #like #managers #mathematicians #want

So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole. ↗

— Trent Dilfer

#hole #i #thought #too #wanted

To attempt this would be like seeing without eyes or directing the gaze of knowledge behind one's own eye. Modern science can acknowledge no other than this epistemological stand-point. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

#attempt #behind #directing #epistemological #eye

I've always looked up to him, even though he is shorter. ↗

— Geena Davis

#even #him #i #looked #shorter

Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain. ↗

— Joe Davis

#highest #humble #retain #study #things

Interpreter of Maladies is the title of one of the stories in the book. And the phrase itself was something I thought of before I even wrote that story. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#book #even #i #interpreter #itself

I drank a lot when I was a teenager and I don't drink any more, because that's when I thought, you know, I'm gonna end up a car wreck. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#because #car #drank #drink #end

I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#good #great #great career #having #i

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals. ↗

— Marc Davis

#come #drawing #had #humans #i