Al Shami Building Quotes

#1. I joined Count Basie's band to make a little money and to see the world. For two years I didn't see anything but the inside of a Blue Goose bus, and I never got to send home a quarter.

Billie Holiday

#2. My son once said Sometimes you have to dig thru the bad to get to the good. So true!

Amanda Penland

#3. It's really hard to hate someone for being different when you're too busy laughing together.

George Takei

#4. Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

Reid Hoffman

#5. L.A is a huge place, literally and metaphorically. Its beauty and horror. Its unconventional history. Its draw and allure. Its diversity and segregation.

James Frey

#6. No matter how much I wanted all those things that I needed money to buy, there was some devilish current pushing me off in another direction
toward anarchy and poverty and craziness. That maddening delusion that a man can lead a decent life without hiring himself out as a Judas Goat.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

H.G.Wells

#8. There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises

Carl Sagan

#9. Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.

Philip Rieff

#10. One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.

Helen Lynd

#11. Are you glad, or sorry?" "About children?" She glanced at his face. He seemed to have no awareness of having hit a sore point dead on. "They just haven't come my way, I guess." The

Lois McMaster Bujold

#12. There's an ancient saying in Japan, that life is like walking from one side of infinite darkness to another, on a bridge of dreams. They say that we're all crossing the bridge of dreams together. That there's nothing more than that. Just us, on the bridge of dreams.

M T Anderson

#13. Three things I have longed to see ... The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Myrtle Reed

#14. I used to carbo load. But then I ran my first marathon, actually on a whim. All I could think of was that I needed protein. I remember going to the grocery store and buying one of those roasted chickens. I remember downing a bunch of that and, yes, I had some carbs, but that's what I felt I needed.

Summer Sanders

#15. But our determination is what creates the path - our determination to make use of adversity rather than escape it.

Alex Lickerman