10x80 Quotes

#1. Marriages are buffeted by more important things, like money and sex and children and jobs and in-laws, in constantly changing combinations.

Beth Pattillo

#2. People say that things like this happen in slow motion, as though you suddenly become an astronaut in the antigravity chamber of your own life. This wasn't true for me. Things were speeding up instead, and I did my best to slow them down in my mind.

Edwidge Danticat

#3. Proud about my father? What am I most proud of? I think I'm proud of the legacy he left I think is what it is. He has left us so much.

Ziggy Marley

#4. It appears to be among the laws of nature, that the mighty of intellect should be pursued and carped by the little, as the solitary flight of one great bird is followed by the twittering petulance of many smaller.

Walter Savage Landor

#5. One person sees the beautiful view and the other sees the dirty window

Andrew Matthews

#6. Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.

Sam Altman

#7. You are very fortunate to be assigned to duty at Fortress Monroe on Chesapeake Bay; it is just the season for soft shelled crabs, and hog fish have just come in, and they are the most delicious panfish you ever ate.

Winfield Scott

#8. To be useful, your beliefs should be constrained by the logic of probability.

Daniel Kahneman

#9. It is no use getting upset about delays in India; they come with unfailing punctuality.

Ruskin Bond

#10. Excellence, much labored for by the race of mortals.

Aristotle.

#11. We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

Tennessee Williams

#12. To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one who calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact.

Elisabeth Elliot

#13. Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

Octavio Paz

#14. At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface.

Joanne Harris