Final Hurdle Quotes

#1. You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.

Colleen Houck

#2. Crafty politician that he is, Obama was smart enough to set low enough standards for his administration to claim 'victory' by the summer of 2011 or so.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#3. Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Winston S. Churchill

#4. The idea that any photography can't be personal is madness! I see something; it goes through my eye, brain, heart, guts; I choose the subject. What could be more personal than that?

Cornell Capa

#5. We don't think much about the up and down of the public market.

Jim Goetz

#6. I slip my arm from underneath his sleeping head -
it's numb, swarming with imaginary pins.
A host of fallen angels perches on each tip,
waiting to be counted.

Wislawa Szymborska

#7. I personally don't do any hard drugs, because they get in the way of me getting to my base issues, and I'd rather get rid of the excess baggage than find a way to shove it deeper in the closet.

Axl Rose

#8. If you study magic, does it become science?"
"You learn it's all science.

Ted Kosmatka

#9. I've gotten to the point that I don't even know what tomorrow brings. When I'm teaching, obviously I'm in town for the class every week.

Diane Paulus

#10. Everything is a gift from God: it is only by recognizing this crucial dependence on the Creator that we will find freedom and peace.

Pope Benedict XVI

#11. The image wanders ghostlike through the present. Ghostly apparitions occur only in places where a terrible deed has been committed.

Siegfried Kracauer

#12. Most people are not really scared of death. They are merely terrified of being taken to a mortuary and/or being buried or cremated and/or being forgotten.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#13. My kinky, foul-mouthed romantic gentleman lover.

Raine Miller

#14. I have to hear this all the time in England: "Well, all Americans are fat and stupid, mm-hm-hm-hm-hm." Really? Well, thanks for sending over the best and brightest to start the party. Maybe we can send a few freaky, Texas, militia, hate-group, gun-toting weirdoes back to your country.

Greg Proops

#15. You're so ... You're too ... You're ... " He faltered, then took a deep breath. "I have no words for you, Sita. You leave me speechless."
I smiled and pinched his buttock so he twitched. "Speechless? Gods, I've broken you. I never would have deemed it possible to render you speechless.

Erica Dakin