Balcombe Paintings Quotes

#1. Imagine willpower as a closed fist and longing as an open hand. Try closing your fist. How long do you think you can hold that pose? A closed fist requires a lot of attention and energy, and so does willpower. Longing is effortless; it's just there, like an open hand.

Gudjon Bergmann

#2. Silicon Valley isn't the only game in town. Tech is increasingly decentralized. Around the world, new tech centers with younger companies are able to embrace a different approach to talent: recruit locally, identify homegrown prospects and, in a phrase, bring them along for the ride.

Ryan Holmes

#3. However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach.

Peter Turchi

#4. The warming we've experienced in the late 20th century could just as easily be explained by small decreases in cloud cover - natural changes in the system - and have nothing to do with CO2.

Willie Soon

#5. After acquiring Texas, Polk deliberately started a war with Mexico because, as he later told the historian George Bancroft, we had to acquire California. Thanks to Polk, we did.

Gore Vidal

#6. He predicts things. I have often heard him say things which are proved right minutes later. Its really impressive - almost mystical.

Didier Drogba