Shi the Rapper

Katita Buckingham

Tucson

"Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin." "I wonder if I've been changed in the night? Let me think. Was I the same when I got up this morning? I almost think I can remember feeling a little different. But if I'm not the same, the next question is 'Who in the world am I ?' Ah, that's the great puzzle!" "But then, shall I never get any older than I am now? That'll be a comfort, one way -- never to be an old woman -- but then -- always to have lessons to learn! " "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. " "Take care of the sense, and the sounds will take care of themselves. " "Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. " "Well, I never heard it before, but it sounds uncommon nonsense. " "There's a large mustard-mine near here. And the moral of that is -- The more there is of mine, the less there is of yours. " "What is the use of repeating all that stuff, if you don't explain it as you go on? It's by far the most confusing thing I ever hear"