Contango Quotes

#1. Some mischievous people always there. Last several thousand years, always there. In future, also.

Dalai Lama

#2. An innocent person is really like a magnet and it attracts, he attracts, the people towards himself, just like a flower attracts a bee towards itself.

Nirmala Srivastava

#3. One of the plagues of our day is that it's easy to feel overwhelmed and powerless in the face of massive violence, poverty and injustice around the globe...One of the greatest needs in this country is for us to have some hope, and to feel empowered that as ordinary people we can make a difference.

David Hartsough

#4. Talking to strangers sounded like talking to no one, which Henry had some firsthand experience in- in real life. It was lonely. Almost as lonely as Lake View Cemetery, where he'd buried Ethel.

Jamie Ford

#5. Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...

Denise Levertov

#6. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.

George M. Gilbert

#7. I never could have planned this, and now I'm in my ideal situation career-wise and just sort of where I am in my life, and I'm super happy with how everything's going.

Shawn Ashmore

#8. The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

Richard J. Foster

#9. ...for all art is one, as Kipling has written, and your art chooses you, not you the art.

Michael Powell

#10. It was becoming clear that I had not been hired to play music or to write it, which was OK with me, except at this moment of insight I didn't know exactly what I had been hired to do.

Michael Nesmith

#11. Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers.

Winston Churchill

#12. I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.

Arnon Goldfinger

#13. Look after my friends, won't you, Kaleb?"
"Stop making so many."
"I love you, too.

Nalini Singh

#14. In [family snapshots] the flow of profane time has been stopped and a sacred interval of self-conscious revelation has been cut from it by the edge of the picture frame and the light of the sun or the flash.

Adrienne Rich

#15. As a kid, books were my great escape and my salvation.

Rodman Philbrick