Auteur Sarasota Quotes

#1. Compared to their sense of smell, dogs seem to pay a lot less attention to their sense of taste. Apparently they believe that if something fits into their mouths, then it is food, no matter what it tastes like.

Stanley Coren

#2. The vision of a champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion when no one else is watching.

Jim Afremow

#3. In designing a house and gardens, it is happy when there is an opportunity of maintaining a subordination of parts; the house so luckily place as to exhibit a view of the whole design. I have sometimes thought that there was room for it to resemble a epic or dramatic poem.

William Shenstone

#4. But, alas, nobody anticipated the United States Department of Homeland Security.

Richard Dawkins

#5. I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.

Preet Bharara

#6. Hewlett Packard at one point had only three private offices. One belonged to Hewlett, one to Packard, and the third to a guy named Paul Ely who annoyed so many coworkers with his bellowing on the phone that the company finally extended his cubicle walls to the ceiling.

Robert X. Cringely

#7. You take everything I've made the last 16 years. I'll take my freedom.

Tina Turner

#8. There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.

Sonia Sotomayor

#9. I was nuts for stuff in the Middle Ages when I was just in the third and fourth grades.

Tamora Pierce

#10. Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.

Peter Joseph

#11. I think I'm very curious about other people. I like to sit and eavesdrop, you know.

Rachel Weisz

#12. Why use long words when short ones will do? Not all readers have been to college or university.

Ken Scott

#13. If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.

John Dos Passos

#14. Every once in a while I'll find a new way of playing something, it will suggest itself. But generally speaking, there's a set sonic potential, and that's in concert with a set instrumental technique.

Z'EV

#15. The trouble with anyone when they're unhappy or in a relationship they recognize is not working but don't know what to do about is that they can't see farther out than that. If the relationship is not working, if what was there isn't there anymore, you have to do something about it.

Penelope Wilton