Ferruzzi Grain Quotes

#1. First let me take a piece of chalk and draw a circle round you, so you're safe. There. Now I'll stand guard, keeping a weather eye open for anything threatening, and we can catch up with each other while we wait.

Helen Simpson

#2. I always tell people this when they're looking for an agent - they should love your work. You are entitled to work with someone who believes in you. Why do business with someone who is ambivalent about you and your art?

Jami Attenberg

#3. As Olafsson showed me, White can win ... It's hard to believe. I stayed up all night analysing, finally convicing myself, and, incidentally, learning a lot about Rook and Pawn endings in the process.

Bobby Fischer

#4. Sometimes I get lost in the rhythm of the paddling. I even count the strokes it takes to get me to a point of land, The play of the muscles in one's arms and shoulders, and the feel of palm against worn wood, are preferable to glancing at a speedometer

Richard Proenneke

#5. Zero G and I feel fine.

John Glenn

#6. If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

Walter Kirn

#7. Remove but the temptations of leisure, and the bow of Cupid will lose its effect.

Ovid

#8. In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Howard Schultz

#9. You have to do that kind of work for yourself. If you do it for other people, you end up wanting them to acknowledge it and to be grateful and to give you credit. If you do it for yourself, you don't expect other people to react in a particular way.

Gretchen Rubin

#10. I'm always getting injuries like bruised and bloody knuckles from catching a cymbal or the edge of a drum.

Tommy Lee

#11. There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

Joseph Addison

#12. To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

Jean De La Bruyere

#13. The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

Ben Elton