Able Quote by Andrew Hacker

It's much easier to talk about racism when you're able to use mutants as a metaphor. People would much rather talk about Charles Xavier…

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common…

— Louis Agassiz

Knowing is a veneer out minds create and lay over the landscape like a painter's drop cloth set upon a forest floor. Its uniformity…

— Greg Kramer

Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer…

— Derren Brown

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

— Bryan Batt

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

— Vaclav Smil

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and…

— Eve Ensler

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of…

— Janice Galloway

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller…

— S. I. Hayakawa

But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse, so it's…

— Surya Das

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they…

— Brent Scowcroft

“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common”

— D.E. Stevenson