Cool Vegas Sayings

#1. Awareness is about improving social intelligence. If you can't see, hear, or feel the dynamics of a conversation, you can't manage them.

John Stoker

#2. Theology is an assault on the sin-distorted intellect; it is the obedience penetrating the realm of thought.

Emil Brunner

#3. The cool parts - the parts that have won Dubai its reputation as 'the Vegas of the Middle East' or 'the Venice of the Middle East' or 'the Disney World of the Middle East, if Disney World were the size of San Francisco and out in a desert' - have been built in the last ten years.

George Saunders

#4. Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.

Tabitha King

#5. I met Evan Rachel Wood, James Woods, Kevin Bacon at Sundance. Steve Buscemi is pretty laid-back. I met Judy Greer in Vegas, and she was cool.

Mark Zupan

#6. A person who is trained to consider his actions, to undertake them deliberately, is in so far forth disciplined. Add to this ability a power to endure in an intelligently chosen course in the face of distraction, confusion, and difficulty, and you have the essence of discipline.

John Dewey

#7. ... if yir gaunny git hung fir stealin a sheep ye might as well shag it n aw.

Irvine Welsh

#8. I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

Ian Fleming

#9. death of a child or a brother or a sister, one may half-waken, thinking of that person with that same lost emptiness, that feeling of places which may never be filled . . . perhaps not even in death?

Stephen King

#10. April. Month of dust and lies.

Naguib Mahfouz

#11. The great thing about working with NPR - and, really, there's like a million of 'em - is all the cool stuff I get to do for the public. Meet the president. Hang out at the National Finals Rodeo in Vegas. Drink a $10,000 martini.

John Ridley

#12. The model of the teaching hospital, which links research to teaching and service is what's missing in global health.

Paul Farmer

#13. What strikes me as funny about Elvis is that all the impersonators choose to do the Vegas Elvis, not the young, cool guy ...

Bill Hicks

#14. Well, we're just now seeing the reductions in mortgage rates. The mortgage rates are based on the ten-year rate and the Fed controls the overnight or the shorter rates.

Franklin Raines

#15. To become straight, you have to transform your cock into a phallus, that well-washed instrument of power The asshole can remain dirty, but you've got to sew it up, forget the half of the penis that joins it, favor external part and confine orgasm to that part

Tony Duvert

#16. If you like our food, great, but don't come tell me you're gonna clean it up, refine it, or elevate it because it's not necessary or possible. We don't need fucking food missionaries to cleanse our palates. What we need are opportunities outside kitchens and cubicles.

Eddie Huang

#17. People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world's worst kind of pain.

Masashi Kishimoto