Ekstrand Elementary Quotes

#1. I'm a really good eavesdropper. I listen to what people say and remember all the buzzwords.

William Gibson

#2. The energy we put out is the energy we get back.

Rachael Bermingham

#3. Custer is said to have boasted that he could ride through the entire Sioux Nation with his Seventh Cavalry, and he was half right. He got half-way through.

Vine Deloria Jr.

#4. All conversation, in addition to whatever else it does, displays, and asks for recognition of, our competence.

Deborah Tannen

#5. I was always a little unsteady in my self-belief. Then there was the Jewish thing. I love being Jewish, I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.

Lauren Bacall

#6. Rooster, maybe well crows, but the eggs still bears the chicken.

Margaret Thatcher

#7. Years on end, and swords on end - where will it end, if our ears unbend - what shall I spend on a wrinkled friend in a pair of tights like a bunch of lights?

Mervyn Peake

#8. As a businessman, you have to trust people. To find two people who lied the way [Vick and Petrino] lied, that's unique and that's not Arthur's fault. It's not a flaw of Arthur's. It's a flaw of these two guys.

Bernard Marcus

#9. Figurines and souvenirs and kickshaws and mementos and gewgaws and bric-a-brac, everything either useless to begin with or ornamented so as to disguise its use; acres of luxuries, acres of excrement.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#10. There is always a way to solve a problem,
and even though I can't see it sometimes,
I choose to believe that a solution always exists.

Jose N. Harris

#11. You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

William Shakespeare

#12. Good morning, God. Another beautiful day. I'm still here, and so is the sun. Thank you. Right, now let's get down to business.

Cathleen Falsani