Brzezinski Cylinder Quotes

#1. The challenge in fiction is to write a terrific story. The challenge in journalism is to communicate solid, objective information. The challenge in creative non-fiction is to do it both and to do it well.

Lee Gutkind

#2. How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.

Hal Elrod

#3. She has impossibly high standards.'
'So do you.'
'Yeah, well, not impossibly high. Someone did come along who meets them.'
'Your problem is thinking no one else ever will.

Eric Lindstrom

#4. And my first item on each day's list is this: Wake up. If I can check that off, I've already done something and can get on with the business of living and trying to honor the memory of those I love who are no longer here.

Will Schwalbe

#5. They are all fighting to know who we are, where we are, and what we want.

Jeff Jarvis

#6. We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else.

Swami Vivekananda

#7. Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Alexis De Veaux

#8. Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

Stephen Covey

#9. What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

James J. Gibson

#10. The evolutionary facts about the emergence of man, e.g., the sudden appearance of Homo sapiens sapiens (Cro-Magnon man) no more than 35 thousand years ago, are as spectacular as the account in Genesis and allow hardly less room for theology.

Walker Percy

#11. Heritage does not equal destiny.

Cate Tiernan

#12. Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.

Andrew Weil

#13. I'm planning to be the youngest contestant in the Top 32, and I'm planning to be the youngest person in the Top 10 ...

Diana DeGarmo

#14. It's the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I'm a woman Phenomenally.

Maya Angelou