Amundson Customs Quotes

#1. All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.

Ariel Levy

#2. Don't hire for the sake of hiring. Hire because there is no other way to do what you want to do.

Sam Altman

#3. He remounted. "I will ride with you." With some effort, he gentled his voice. "If that would be agreeable to you."
"How kind of you. Thank you.

Carolyn Jewel

#4. I am acutely aware of the fact that the marriage between mathematics and physics, which was so enormously fruitful in past centuries, has recently ended in divorce.

Freeman Dyson

#5. When I was a child I read books for entertainment and information; I now think of books as lifeboats.

Alice Walker

#6. I guess you could say that no matter what the characters are enduring, I try to make them retain their humanity. Their self-absorbed, grouchy, selfish, aggravating humanity.

MaryJanice Davidson

#7. Our magistrates discharge their duties best at the beginning; and fall off toward the end.
[Lat., Initia magistratuum nostrorum meliora, ferme finis inclinat.]

Tacitus

#8. Someone who wants to write should make an effort to write a little something every day. Writing in this sense is the same as athletes who practice a sport every day to keep their skills honed.

Anita Desai

#9. The foreign states may become actively involved for positive purposes only if and when the internal resistance movement has already begun shaking the dictatorship, having thereby focused international attention on the brutal nature of the regime.

Gene Sharp

#10. Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#11. Sometimes hate hurts more than love feels good. Just have to realize it's because we're more used to love. Let the haters stumble by.

Lights