Allissa Richardson Quotes

#1. There were many, many fine reasons not to go, but attempting to climb Everest is an intrinsically irrational act - a triumph of desire over sensibility. Any person who would seriously consider it is almost by definition beyond the sway of reasoned argument.

Jon Krakauer

#2. I think the market driven economic system is the most productive system, but to have that work in the world, you've got to also have social investments to go along with that.

Mike Lowry

#3. No doubt, the White House thinks the American people know Obama's story. But since the Inauguration, we've seen only the president's present: his perfect family, his Ivy League elegance, his effortless mastery of complex issues. We never see him sweat. And we forget that he ever had to struggle.

Dee Dee Myers

#4. Survival required a certain degree of stubbornness.

Sarah M. Eden

#5. Nothing exists until it is created.

Les Coalson

#6. Air was filtering out of my two collapsing lungs. Water rose, bubbling to enter, and I would have died of instantaneous pneumonia - something I have never heard of - if my hand had not got hold of a glass ashtray and, entirely apart from my personal decision, flung it.

Grace Paley

#7. Having no other recourse, Roran resorted to the unexpected: he stuck his head and neck out and shouted, "BAH!" just as he would if he were trying to scare someone in a dark hallway ...

Christopher Paolini

#8. I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

Richard Dawkins

#9. But novels are never about what they are about; that is, there is always deeper, or more general, significance. The author may not be aware of this till she is pretty far along with it.

Diane Johnson

#10. Being short and seeing a promoter take the stock up is very irritating. It's not worth it to have that much irritation in your life.

Charlie Munger

#11. So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

Barbara Broccoli

#12. I am Nemesis, meting out just deserts

Nick Harkaway

#13. No man has escaped paying the penalty for being born.

Seneca.

#14. These men suffered enough for a hundred lifetimes, and no one in this country should be allowed to forget it.

Hampton Sides

#15. She's saving the world one fashion disaster at a time!

Ross Mathews